Toolholding & Workholding

Products • April 12, 2017

The Dream Chuck Stop

The Dream Chuck Stop from Dream Tools Inc. allows end users to machine through a part by providing the clearance for cutting tools to go through the part. According to the company, it is reusable unlike soft jaws and conventional chuck stops.

Products • April 4, 2017

CarvLock Workholding Towers

Kurt Workholding offers a complete line of high-density CarvLock workholding towers for precision machining with eight or 12 clamping stations in both manual and hydraulic models. Equipped with easily changeable jaws, these Kurt towers enhance setup flexibility and provide fast changeover between jobs.

Articles • March 30, 2017 • Tom Lipton

Shop Operations: Workholder setup reduction

To reduce setup—as well as overhead costs—in a job-shop environment, first examine the workholding methods, according to the Shop Operations column in the April 2017 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Products • March 1, 2017

Turnkey, Custom Engineered Workholding Services

Kitagawa NorthTech Inc. provides turnkey, custom engineered workholding services. The company also provides design, engineering, workholding manufacturing, assembly, testing, inspection, documentation, installation and training.

News • February 21, 2017 • Raymond Farrar

High-Torque Retention Knob prevents toolholder deformation

Whereas the retention knob is an unmistakably critical component of the machining process, conventional retention knobs, when installed in a toolholder, may deform the precision taper because of the elastic nature of a toolholder's thin walls. This taper deformation prevents a toolholder from properly mating with the spindle of a CNC machine. JM Performance Products Inc. has worked to overcome this manufacturing bind with its lower-deformation High Torque Retention Knobs.

Products • February 21, 2017

Royal Chuck Stop

The Royal Chuck Stop provides a simple, consistent method for locating short parts in a 3-jaw lathe chuck. The chuck stop enables short parts to project beyond the chuck jaws, providing clearance for facing operations.

News • February 10, 2017 • Alan Richter

Hydraulic fixturing components provide size and durability advantages

Time-tested workholding allows a parts manufacturer to target other areas for improvement, if needed. Husky Corp., for example, needed space-saving hydraulic components when refixturing a dial machine with limited space for fixtures and conducted an extensive search 30 years ago for a solution, said Darrell Vilmer, senior manufacturing engineer – machine/fixture designer for Husky.

Products • February 9, 2017

125mm Vise and 96mm Drop & Lock Pallet

Jergens Inc. introduces its 125mm vise and 96mm Drop & Lock pallet as a universal quick-change solution. The two work together on vertical and horizontal machining centers, and significantly open up possibilities on 5-axis and multiple-axis machining centers for increased machining access and the quick changeover of both top tooling and machineable parts.

Articles • February 1, 2017 • Kip Hanson

Workholding: Secured by suction

Vacuum workholding can securely grip difficult-to-hold parts, according to the February 2017 Workholding column in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Products • February 1, 2017

Spindle Repair

SPS Spindle takes their business very seriously. It realizes that its clients' bottom lines rely on the detail-oriented services provided by the spindle repair company. Machine downtime equates to profit loss, and SPS takes pride on being a no-nonsense company.

Products • January 31, 2017

Force Gauge

American Workholding Inc. offers Force Gauge, an effective, lightweight, mostly hand-held, direct-reading gauge. It gives an operator, setup man or quality control individual an instant and accurate reading of actual lbs/tonnage force data for many shop floor situations.

Products • January 18, 2017

GN 254 Stainless Steel Vibration/Shock Absorption Mounts

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 254 inch and metric size stainless steel vibration/shock-absorption mounts, conical type. These RoHS compliant vibration/shock absorption mounts are also known as shock absorbing mounts, vibration mounts, antivibration mounts, vibration bobbins or rubber bumpers.