Chucks & Jaws

INDEX has announced the launch of its new G420 turn/mill center. The machine features identical 3,500-rpm twin spindles with 315 mm (400 mm optional) chucks and a robust 5-axis milling spindle that provides up to 12,000 rpm with an HSK-T63 interface or 18,000 rpm with a Capto C6 interface.

Get into quick change for a fraction of the cost of a quick-change chuck. The System 3 Quick Change Base Jaws from Huron Machine Products bolt to your chuck like a standard top jaw.

Carmex Precision Tools Ltd. sees a significant increase in demand for specialized tooling used in unique applications. According to Jim White, national sales manager for Carmex USA, "The ability of design engineers in leading edge industries to envision complex high-performance parts, coupled with new materials including made-to-order alloys, composites, glass, and ceramics, has resulted in the need for cutting tools that can deliver greater productivity and improved finish."

Dillon Manufacturing specializes in premium chuck jaw products for large-diameter (15-60 inch) chucks. Matching specialized workholding to the large diameter chuck allows faster, easier and more profitable setups. Available in standard configurations to fit virtually any chuck manufacturer, many sizes of hard or soft top jaws, or full grip (pie) jaws are available from stock or with industry-leading lead times.

BIG KAISER announces the MEGA Micro Coolant Nut, a developed solution to provide precise coolant supply to micro cutting tools applications at high speeds.

In recent years, machine tool OEMs have completely transformed CNC turning centers through the application of several advanced technologies. Whether it's ultradense synthetic machine beds, faster rapid traverse and acceleration rates, integrated spindle motor spindles or powerful multi-tasking capabilities, nearly every feature of these machines has changed. There's just one major exception.

The DeHoff G560-B1 is a custom machine designed to form the rifling grooves in gun barrels. The barrel is rotated by a 3-jaw chuck while a rifling button tool is pulled through the barrel by a hydraulic cylinder. The button tool deforms the rifling grooves into the internal bore of the barrel using a swaging process.

Kennametal's latest weapon in the war on chatter is one that will have machinists everywhere saying, "I need that." The new boring system boasts the most effective antichatter mechanism ever developed by Kennametal, and also offers an extensive range of indexable heads and shank sizes.

BIG KAISER is expanding its range of BIG Capto toolholders with the addition of a new size, C4, which is becoming increasingly popular as a quick-change system for turret tooling on lathes.

For machining a wide range of complex parts complete in a single work cycle, the new MT 733 series vertical spindle mill-turn centers from STAMA, a member of CHIRON Group, is capable of six-sided/simultaneous 5-axis machining, including milling and turning from bar or from chucked parts in lot sizes as low as 1.

Phillips Precision Inc. announces its new ER collet chucks as part of the Inspection Arsenal LEAN, quick-swap inspection fixture system. Not only does Phillips Precision offer the only quick-swap standard fixture systems, but they provide quick, creative fixture design and quick shipping of your orders.

BIG KAISER says its hydraulic chucks for Swiss-type lathes are the first improvement to this technology in more than 30 years. These toolholders use a single wrench, which makes for a quick and easy change of the cutting tools on a gang slide.