Toolholding & Workholding

Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. specializes in developing custom solutions for difficult problems.

Shops looking to maximize workholding flexibility will reportedly get it with these Kurt VersatileLock tombstone fixtures.

Advanced Machine & Engineering introduces the improved OTT-JAKOB brand power drawbar for toolholding.

Dillon aluminum full grip jaws, available from 5 to 24 inches in diameter, are ideal for machining of thin walled parts.

Designed for precision part clamping, the Dual Force Precision Machine Vises from Palmgren are recommended for use in running production parts where flatness and parallelism are key.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 933.5 stainless steel hexagon head screws with a brass tip, nylon tip or spherical pivot in metric sizes.

Mitee-Bite has introduced a universal multi-functional vacuum system.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers WN 580 inch size lifting eye bolts.

Toolmaker OSG Corp. and toolholding manufacturer Haimer GmbH signed a strategic partnership and licensing agreement in which the OSG-Group's round endmills will include Haimer's Safe-Lock system. The Safe-Lock design in cutting tools and toolholders combines a press fit clamping with a positive form locking mechanism. This prevents round cutting tools from being rotated or completely pulled out from a toolholder during heavy machining, according to the company.

Quick-change tooling can boost profits.

Eriez SafeHold permanent lifting magnets are for carrying semifinished products such as machined parts, castings, press molds, steel plates, bars and tubes without slings, hooks or cables.

Within seconds, a part-specific outline is molded with this new flexible pin clamping element from Euro-Tech Corp., making a workpiece ready for machining, inspection or numerous other applications; with each pin locked by a separate clamping sleeve.