Archive for August, 2008

Benchtop Milling Machine

You can spend thousands of dollars on a benchtop milling machine, but you can do a lot of good work on an inexpensive mill, too.
The Atlas CH-10M mini-mill is a benchtop milling machine, designed for small-scale metalworking. Unlike other machines in its size class, the Atlas is mostly cast iron, with an extruded aluminum column. [...]

Benchtop programmable dc loads

WESTEK Electronics has released the Array Electronics 3700 series of two benchtop dc loads with flexible keypad and rotary controls as well as computer interface via RS232 or RS485.
The 3700 series are suitable for a range of tasks including battery and power supply testing.
Windows-based operational software on a CD is supplied as standard and includes [...]

Bench-Top Bender-Booter Produces Finished Ignition Wire Assemblies

Bender-Booter produces finished ignition wire assemblies.
A new, air-powered, ergonomic bender-booter ignition wire assembly machine that can produce straight, 45-, and 90-degree angled boots is being introduced by ETCO Incorporated of Warwick, Rhode Island.
The ECTO Bender-Booter is a pneumatic, bench-top unit that applies a boot
to a terminated ignition wire and bends it to produce 45-, and [...]

New Benchtop Robot From Dispense Works

The RP Series Benchtop Robot from Dispense Works Inc. is designed to combine dispensing applications with assembly, staking, labeling, and other production processes. ‘
The company says the robot’s high payload capacity combined with precision ball slides and lead screws results in machine tool quality performance. An embedded dual memory processor with Compact Flash card requires [...]

Drill sharpener cuts tooling costs, inventory

Gear manufacturer reported that by reclaiming used drills using a Darex Sharpener the machine has paid for itself ’several times over’ by sharpening drills to ‘new’ condition.
Drills required to make holes to tighter tolerances are more expensive to replace than conventional tools and can also be costly to have resharpened by external grinding services To [...]

RCBI making changes to machinist program

As part of the expansion of the machinist technology program at Rocket Center’s Robert C. Byrd Institute, some pieces of equipment will be moved to RCBI’s Bridgeport location.
Director Charlotte Weber said the changes are positive for the area because the equipment they are moving out “represents 10-year-old technology.”
“We’re moving that equipment out and taking a [...]

New Bridgeport 5-Axis Machining Center at IMTS ‘08

Bridgeport, a member of The Hardinge Group, is introducing it’s newest member of their XR-Series VMCs – – the fully-integrated 5-axis XR 600 5AX High-Performance vertical machining center – – at the IMTS show in Hardinge booth #8032. Positioned in the top of Bridgeport’s machining center portfolio (above the Standard XV-Series and the Performance GX-Series), [...]

Turning spinning-tool ups productivity by 500%

Turning spinning-tool technology is designed to distribute heat and wear more effectively than a single-point lathe tool, can increase productivity by up to 500% and tool life by up to 2,000%
Designed to distribute heat and wear more effectively than a single-point lathe tool, the turning spinning-tool technology can increase productivity by up to 500% and [...]

Fadal Horizontal Turning Centers

Fadal Machining Centers new “Performance Turning Centers Series” (PTC) includes four horizontal turning centers:

The PTC150-G with a 150 mm (6 in.) chuck, a gang-type slide with space for up to six toolblocks and optional 8-position turret. This 2,500 kg (5,500 lbs.) machine comes with a 7.5 kW (10 hp), 6,000 rpm, A2-5 spindle with a [...]

CNC machining, CNC turning and saw cutting available from Kilner’s Engineering

The efficiency in CNC machining provided by Kilner’s Engineering comprises of high torque 15 kilowatt or high speed 10000 RPM spindle, dividable work zones for maximum productivity, heavy duty 300ø 4th axis for multi face machining, rapid tool change times for multiple operations. The versatility in CNC machining consists of aluminium, engineering plastics, brass or [...]

CNC turning and milling services from ETH Enterprises

ETH Enterprises offers CNC turning and cnc milling machines. CAD-CAM software products are offered by ETH Enterprises. Turbine and fabricated model components from ETH Enterprises are manufactured with help of CNC machines. All types of solid models are offered by ETH Enterprises for plastics, press forming tools.
The CNC machines from ETH Enterprises come [...]

Turning to automation

Most shops, especially those with under 20 employees, can’t afford to

A Fortune lathe with gantry loader does the work of two machines and two operators at Boninfante Performance Clutch Parts.

The VT’s compact footprint makes it a perfect candidate for automation.

To reduce backlash, friction, and vibration, Fortune eliminates drive belts and gears from the VT’s feed-drive [...]

Carbide grooving inserts raise turning capacity

Changing to a carbide insert grooving, parting-off and chamfering tooling package has resulted in a four machine turning cell significantly increasing its capacity.
Denso Manufacturing UK in Telford, shropshire, reported major cost savings on volume produced precision tube components after the company changed from using custom-ground high speed steel (HSS) grooving, part-off and chamfering tooling to [...]

Vertical turning centres mill and drill

Precision turning as well as milling/drilling operations on large components may be performed on vertical turning centres storing, as standard, up to 36 driven tools.
Precision turning as well as milling / drilling operations on large components may be performed using the latest Okuma and Howa ‘VTM’ vertical turning centres, marketed in the UK by sole [...]

DRO has constant surface speed turning function

Colchester Lathe’s variable speed, manually controlled centre lathes now feature the Acu-Rite DRO 200S digital readout with constant surface speed functionality.
The Acu-Rite DRO 200S digital readout with constant surface speed (CSS) functionality is now provided as standard on Colchester Lathe’s ranges of cost-effective, high-performance Master, Triumph, Mascot and Mastiff variable speed manual lathes CSS functionality [...]