Chucks & Jaws

Products • April 11, 2017

Super Slim Hydraulic Chuck

BIG KAISER announces the introduction of the world's reportedly smallest hydraulic chuck for HSK-E25 machine spindles, thus completing its extensive range of BIG KAISER Super Slim hydraulic chucks. The Super Slim type of hydraulic chucks (HDC) are suitable toolholders for precision finishing processes in confined areas with drills, reamers, ball mills, endmills, diamond reamers and grinding tools.

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.

Products • February 23, 2017

ALTEMP Q NB 50 Lubricating Paste

Klüber Lubrication offers ALTEMP Q NB 50, a white/beige lubricating paste containing a mineral base oil, a barium complex soap and inorganic solid lubricants. ALTEMP Q NB 50 is used as a universal assembly paste, offering benefits especially in friction points with small to minimum motion under high static and dynamic loads.

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.

Products • February 20, 2017

HydroChuck Grind-A and HydroChuck Grind-M Chucks

MAPAL offers hydraulic chucks specially for tool grinding machines, the HydroChuck Grind-A and the HydroChuck Grind-M. The advantages of MAPAL's hydraulic expansion technology can thus now also be used for tool grinding.

Products • February 14, 2017

RBS Series and TBS Series Rotary Tables

KOMA Precision Inc. introduces a line of high accuracy, high rigidity, energy saving and zero maintenance rotary tables from Tsudakoma. The pictured RBS series (Rotary Ball System) is a 4th axis rotary table series suitable for single-axis VMCs and the TBS series (Tilt Ball System) is a 5th axis rotary table series suitable for dual-axis use on VMCs.

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 9, 2017

Large-Diameter Steel Round Jaws

U S Shop Tools offers round jaws in sizes up to 28 inches in diameter. In addition, large diameter steel round jaws, up to 15" with a height of 6", are also available.

Products • January 9, 2017

VL 3 DUO Twin-Spindle Vertical Pickup Turning Machine

When EMAG launched the new TrackMotion automation system in 2015, it quickly became apparent that it not only focused on transporting parts, but on the perfect combination of machine tool, raw parts storage facility and a standard automation solution to create a highly efficient production line. The consistent adjustment of the automation to the modular machines from its internal production makes it possible to create manufacturing systems using a modular kit. So it will come as no surprise that EMAG is now unveiling another world first, a direct development of the modular machines in combination with the TrackMotion automation system – the VL 3 DUO.

Products • December 22, 2016

Customized NF-650 Air Chuck

A customer came to Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. to design a chuck that would allow its precision sprocket to be positioned in the chuck only one way in order to assure a properly timed gear part. It would have to work with a range of gear diameters. Northfield's engineers customized the NF-650 air chuck with special tooling to meet these requirements.

Products • December 22, 2016

MTS 2.0 (Modular Tooling System)

With total monitoring feedback, a maximum clamping power of 20,000 N and enhanced precision, the new MTS 2.0 (Modular Tooling System) fulfills even the most exacting machining demands. The use of state-of-the-art ceramic lock balls combined with innovative springs increase clamping power while allowing an opening pressure of only 6 bar.

Products • December 13, 2016

G200 Turn-Mill Center

INDEX has developed a new generation of its turn-mill center G200, a compact machine that offers higher performance, potentially up to 30 percent greater productivity, in the same footprint as the earlier generation. The redesign of the machine resulted in an increase of the maximum turning length to 660 mm, a higher performance milling spindle and expanded live tool complement, as well as the XPanel with i4.0 readiness.