Holemaking
Vertical Turning Center Adds Gear-Cutting Capability
Mag’s VTC 2500H vertical turning center combines gear hobbing and milling capabilities with its range of turning, milling, drilling, threading and contouring functions for workpieces ranging to 2,700 mm in diameter.
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Horizontal Boring and Milling Machine Provides Accurate Cutting
A combination of a robust design, thermal compensation and scales on axes in SNK’s Nissin HBM BHP130-3.5 series horizontal boring and milling machine is designed to produce high cutting accuracy.
Read MoreHorizontal Boring Mill Designed for Large Components
The Spirit 200 horizontal boring mill is designed for machining large components for the energy industry as well as for shop jobs.
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Shop Taps into Versatility, Time and Cost Savings
Standardizing on one, general-purpose tap for its diverse mix of jobs has helped this shop reduce inventory, costs and downtime.
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Pull Boring Highlights the Capability of Deep Hole Making
Pull boring enables users to achieve remarkable straightness in deep holes. A variation of this technique is also effective when maintaining consistent wall thickness (in long, cast pipes, for example) is top priority.
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Effective Hole Making Via Robotic Orbital Drilling
New technology may enable robotic drilling to be more commonplace in machine shops by overcoming the issue of limited robot rigidity.
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Drill-Tap, Mill-Trim Three-Axis Machining Cells
Zagar’s multi-axis machine station is designed for automatic production drilling and tapping as well as light milling and trimming.
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Small-Footprint Y-Axis Turning Center
The ST-10Y from Haas is a small-footprint, Y-axis turning center that provides 4" of Y-axis travel (±2" from the centerline) for off-center milling, drilling and tapping, and it is equipped with high-torque live tooling and a servo-driven C axis for versatile four-axis capability.
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Drill Reaches 70×D Drilling Depth
Walter Titex’s XD70 drill is designed to reach a drilling depth of 70×D without pecking, exceeding standard depths of 30×D.
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Multitasking Calculator
Does it make sense to replace a series of separate machine tools with a single multitasking machine that performs turning, milling and drilling all in one cycle?
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