Helpful, Free CAD Model for Those Who Machine DOM Tubing
This machine shop 3D prints a plastic plug that it inserts into the end of tubing to prevent chips and coolant from entering the lathe's bar feeder. It offers a free CAD model of it for other shops machining that material.
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Hwacheon Hi-Tech 750 Turning Center Designed for Large Parts
Machine features high-torque, built-in gear-driven spindle that reaches up to 1,800 rpm.
Emag Twin Spindle Lowers Gear Machining Costs
The VL 1 Twin-spindle pick-up turning machine simultaneously machines two identical bevel gears at high speed within the same machining area.
5 Benefits to In-House Grinding
This machine shop’s in-house grinding capabilities offer many advantages for itself and for its customers, including time and cost savings.
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Rollomatic Offers Compact, Versatile 6-Axis Tool Grinder
6-Axis tool grinder offers new options for grinding solid carbide boring bars.
Automated Hard Turning, Grinding on One Platform
This inverted vertical turning machine can perform hard turning and grinding of chucked components such as gears while loading and unloading material and completed parts itself.
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Precision Machining Technology Moving Shops Forward
New equipment and software continue to be developed to support the needs of production machine shops like yours. Here’s a sample of technology now on the market that can help you grow your operation and become more efficient.
Romi's CNC Teach Lathes Can Operate Manually, Automatically
The lathe is as simple to use as a manual lathe, but has the added capability and productivity of a CNC lathe.
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Automated Manufacturing in the U.S. Makes for a Fitting Process
An Australian company has been able to speed delivery of its popular plumbing products to U.S. customers by adding machining and assembly cells to produce brass fittings in Alabama.
Mill-Turn Enables Multitasking, Single Setup Machining
Starrag’s Bumotec s191 mill-turn center can reduce lead times by completing a range of different tasks in a single setting.