Toolholding & Workholding

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

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.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 2404 steel telescopic linear slides with partial extension in metric sizes.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 421 nylon plastic hollow knurled knobs with a threaded stud in new inch and metric sizes.

EDT Corp. offers customers more choices in the ball bearing lineup.

Kurt's VersatileLock Vises provide clamping repeatability, assuring 0.0005 inch repeating accuracy.

Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. offers its AMROK brand tombstones in epoxy-mineral material, available in various standard shapes and sizes.

TE-CO Manufacturing LLC offers locator master jaw set with built-in workstop pins.

Metalworking is becoming increasingly specialized, with manufacturers of lathes and grinders offering a variety of capacities, bed lengths and other options. This promises the user the ability to create custom machining solutions to "meet any production need." While this is true to a point, standard options have their limits, and truly customized machines cost more and have extended delivery times.

After visiting a few fellow shop owners, Manager's Desk Columnist Keith Jennings found that generating extra cash was a frequent topic of interest -- particularly with the fickle state of the market and governments being desperate to extract additional revenue through taxes and fees.

High-speed machining is an amorphous term, but can generally mean anything from 10,000 rpm to, at least theoretically, 500,000 rpm or higher. At high speeds, even the slightest toolholder movement or runout can drastically reduce tool life, spindle life, surface finish and part quality.

Designed for precision part clamping, the line of dual-force, precision vises from Palmgren deliver workhold efficiencies and increased productivity by providing the strength and rigidity to hold parts securely and accurately.