Toolholding & Workholding

Let's say you want to machine your initials on your favorite Hummel figurine or cut the likeness of the school mascot on your daughter's Little League helmet. How are you going to grip them? A conventional way to grip fragile, difficult-to-hold workpieces is to encapsulate them in some sort of potting compound, a time-consuming and wasteful process.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 927.7 stainless steel clamping levers with eccentrical cam with stainless steel contact plate, tapped type, in inch and metric sizes.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 71752 fork heads (yokes), plain fork type, steel or stainless steel, in inch sizes.

ITI Tooling Co. Inc.'s portfolio of more than 20,000 different toolholders includes VDI toolholders with shaft diameters of 16mm through 80mm and BMT block toolholders (BMT55 to BMT85) to machine-specific holders for machine tool builders such as KIA (WIA), Mazak, Doosan, DMG Mori, Nakamura, EMCO Maier, Hurco, YCM, Samsung, Hwacheon and Okuma.

The ITI-Exact MTS, ATS and BTS tailstocks accommodate many of Indexing Technologies Inc.'s non-lifting indexing and NC rotary tables when heavy and/or long piece parts are being machined.

Kurt's line up provides machinists with a wide array of holding options for their workpieces being machined on small CNC tables.

Industrial Magnetics Inc. introduced its Polymagnet Demo Kit for product designers and engineers.

The mid-size diameter and adaptability to custom fixture designs make the Unilock 138 series BIG Kaiser's best-selling round chuck workholding solution. Now come two new additions to the 138 series that make it an even more powerful and versatile solution for demanding workholding scenarios—the ESM 138 Turbo and the ERGO 138.

Master Bond EP21NDCL is a unique two component epoxy system that cures optically clear in thin sections, even though Part A is translucent and Part B is light amber.

RÖHM Products of America the new, customizable RRMG synthetic gripper.

Techniks offers mold clamping magnets for all sizes of injection mold machines.

Hardinge Workholding now offers 5-day delivery on its TF25 Extended Nose Swiss Collet. The collet features added nose length—flat or tapered—for performing pick-off work or to compensate for tooling interference. When ordering, customers need to provide hole size (ID), length of extension and nose diameter. (The nose diameter must be at least 0.125" larger than the ID.) Standard collets and bushings from www.ShopHardinge.com are delivered in 24 hours.