When it comes to workholding for prismatic machining there is very little to compare with the flexibility offered by the humble vice. However, if it is an Orange vice there is nothing humble about it. From the company’s latest bench vice right through to its advanced Delta IV 4/5-axis range, these fixturing systems are epitomised...
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pL Lehmann “Turns The Tables” on University’s VMC
University of York Press
Productivity and Efficiency Enhancements Set ZeroClamp Apart from the Rest
Workshop benefits for milling include direct clamping of the component onto a base unit. Holes as sockets for the clamping studs are specified at the design stage. Components can be changed quickly and accurately across all machines for second ops and finishing. In the case of turning operations the productivity increases are achieved with pre-balanced...
Leader Chuck & Tecnologie F R B- Working Together to Get the Job Done
Manufacturing high quality face drivers for over 50 years, only one thing has never changed: the FRB patented balancing and holding system. Being completely mechanical and technologically advanced it still ensures absolute reliability, constant repeatability of the results and unparalleled holding capacity. Over the same time period, the FRB live centres have been considered one...
From Zero to Work-Clamping Hero; the ZeroClamp Pneumatic Centring Clamping Fixture 160
Alongside its automation systems for machine tools, available from workholding, productivity improvement and manufacturing efficiency specialist Leader Chuck International, ZERO CLAMP also offers a new, matching clamping device for handling component blanks and raw billet material. The pneumatic centring clamping fixture 160 offers powerful, infinitely variable clamping with forces of up to 45 kN at...