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metalworking product review ■ Quick-change system is available ■ System provides quick-change fixturing for form tools for horizontal machining centers Fischer Special Tooling’s Hyper-Change is a quick-change Carr Lane Manufacturing’s Carr Lock system of tooling blocks system for form cutting tools. It allows maximum adjustment and fixture plates provide quick-change fixturing on HMCs. for taper, height, diameter and lateral positions, while providing The system enables end users to create their own fixturing a repeatability better than 5µm (0.0002") from tool change on inexpensive fixture plates rather than dedicating a new to tool change, according to the company. The system has a tombstone to each job, according to the company. Repeatability is front-coupling mechanism that allows for easy access and fast 0.0004" (0.010mm). Components can be ordered individually or replacement while m
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