Leader KTA Hydraulic Chucks

Leader’s New Partner: K T A Spindle Tooling

KTA operates to an accredited ISO-9001 Quality Management System and the products, including  hydraulic expansion chucks, shrink fit holders, tapping chucks for synchronized tapping cycles, tapping chucks operating on expansion and compression, ER collet chucks, face mill holders, Weldon holders, are produced to very tight tolerances and balanced to G 2.5 (vibration velocity in mm/s)...

Slim Line Drill Chucks

The New Slim Line Drill Chuck

The recently announced Slim Line Drill Chuck from Llambrich puts a new spin on the word 'accessibility'. With central through coolant AD and a slim nose for additional clearance in confined areas, they are balanced up to  25,000@G2.5 with a maximum run out of 0,02 mm.  A key-lock for clockwise and counter clockwise rotation is also included to prevent...

Leader Partners with F I A L

With over 60 years’ experience, FIAL produce a range of manual chucks for conventional and CNC lathes and turning centres that are fully interchangeable with all leading popular brands. Following the recent partnership agreement between the two companies, full pre- and post-sales support for the FIAL range in UK and Eire will be provided by...

In Process Gauging

“In grinding, small details can have a huge impact on the overall performance of the machining process, whether we are talking about the cycle time, dimensional tolerance, or roughness of parts. Everything depends on microns, which in turn rely on both the machine and the operators.” Francesco states: “There are processes where technology can help...

Leader Takes on AutoGrip

Workholding specialist, Leader Chuck Systems, has full responsibility for the sale of Autogrip’s extensive range high precision power chucks and rotary cylinders in the UK, which includes pre-sales technical support, stocks of popular items and spare parts being held by Leader at its extensive logistics facility in Leamington Spa. For bar feed or billet loading...

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