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Double duty: tips for Swiss tooling stations

Ever set up a Swiss-style machine and run out of tooling stations? With many Swiss machines today boasting upwards of 20 or even 30 tooling stations, it’s hard to believe you might run short. But on older or smaller machines, as well as when running complex jobs involving multiple operations, this is sometimes the case.

Drilling into the medical market

In the rapidly growing medical device industry, bigger is not necessarily better. In fact, when it comes to machining medical parts, the trend of “going small” is getting bigger.

CFRP gets ‘tough’ love from microtools

Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) is a corrosion-resistant and lightweight material used in everything from paintball guns to Formula One racecars. The composite material has an “ultimate tensile strength” approximately four times that of steel and unrivaled strength-to-weight ratio, meaning it’s not only stronger than alternative materials, like aluminum, but you also need far less of it by weight to do the same job.

Ask any archaeologist excavating an ancient village and he will confirm that ceramics have been around a long time. Ceramic was first used for making pottery over 10,000 years ago. But today’s advanced, or “technical,” ceramics are being used in ways never imagined by the ancients. They have found their way into the military, medical, automotive, consumer and electronics industries.

Choosing the right micro machine tool can be a bit of a conundrum. Machining micro parts and features doesn’t always require a machine with a small volumetric capacity, nor is a bigger machine necessarily the optimal choice. As in the Goldilocks fairy tale, however, if micropart manufacturers look hard enough, they can find a machine that is “just right” for their particular application.

June 15, 2011—Harvey Tool, Rowley, Mass., in March relaunched its Web site at harveytool.com with a new design, more content and special features such as Stock Check. Other features of the site include product pages, an advanced search function and product reviews.

Top Products

Micro universal deburring tools

Heule Tool Corp.

Heule Tool Corp. introduced its new micro COFA series carbide deburring tool for all purpose deburring of through holes 2mm to 4.1mm (0.080"-0.161"), front and back, in a single pass.

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Carbide deburring tools

Heule Tool Corp.

Heule Tool Corp. offers Micro Snap carbide deburring tools for deburring and chamfering the fronts and backs of through-holes from 2mm to 5mm in diameter in a single pass.

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Test, measurement, inspection

Aerotech Inc.

Aerotech catalog A catalog from Aerotech Inc. on motion and automation for test, measurement and inspection covers the company’s motion capabilities in applications such as sensor testing, surface profiling, nondestructive testing, and semiconductor inspection and metrology.