Tooling

One Guide Channel, No Spindle Liners

It’s only 5 years old, but bar feed manufacturer Top Automazioni is growing fast. On a recent visit to the company headquarters in Italy, I found out first hand how technology has developed faster change-over of bar feeders and how it is fueling demand.

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Fast Taps For Today's CNC Machines

Emuge Corp. (Northborough, Massachusetts), has expanded its line of Full-Speed taps with ten new styles, each available in 20 different sizes, in both inch and millimeter.

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Coolant-Through Turning Toolholders Deliver Increased Performance And Tool Life

It should be obvious to anyone who has ever washed a driveway or patio with a garden hose: For the best results, you must keep the stream of water precisely where it's needed. The same principle applies to delivering coolant to the cutting zone.

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Boning Up On Thread Whirling's Advantages

Thread whirling attachments installed on this bone screw maker's Swiss screw machines prove to be just the right prescription for the company's mix of screw sizes and run quantities.

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Workholding Collets And Factors That Affect Grip Force

The phenomenon of the staying power of the collet, in light of the rapidly changing technology in machine tool design, is attributed to the utility and the elegant simplicity of the device. The collet is a small but powerful component for the machine tool industry, incorporating all of the these features.

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Serrating On The Lathe

If you are one of those firms doing serrating as a separate operation, you’ll be pleased to learn that there is now a serration shave tool that enables you to perform the serrating as just another operation on your CNC lathe.

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Turning On To Compact Bar Feeders

Compact bar feeders deliver the performance and capacity needed for this turning cell to run in a largely unattended mode.

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Military Supplier Delivers On Spec, On Time

When your only product is socket set screws and your primary customers are the demanding aerospace and military markets, quality and uptime are paramount. Your multi-spindle machines need to be reliable and easily reconfigured to produce a new part at a moment’s notice.

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Custom Collets Help Blind Bolt Shop Maintain Part Quality And Concenctricity

For their larger diameter fasteners, this manufacturer uses a custom-manufactured collet to control part quality and concentricity.

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The Benefits of Tool Monitoring

With millions of manufacturing jobs going overseas to cheap labor countries, companies today are struggling to keep part costs competitive. The machining industry has had to look for various ways to reduce the cost of the parts being machined. One of the most popular ways to reduce part cost is lights-out, or unattended, machining.

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