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NEW Vario Visio DIGITAL adjustable aggregate head

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:41:00 +0000

Smart Line Vario

We've offered CNC Aggregate heads with adjustable angles for some time. Our Vario can operate at any angle within it's range to perform “impossible” cuts, …right on your CNC router. The Function Line Vario aggregate operates at any angle from 0˚ to 100˚. We've also had the The Ultra Line Vario aggregate that operates at any angle from -100˚ to 100˚ Each of these uses a Vernier scale on the side of the unit to adjust it.

The NEW VARIO VISO

The vernier scale is great but we thought that it was time to go Digital! Our new Vario Viso has a easy to adjust head and a DIGITAL Display which really makes it easy for Boring, Routing, and Sawing.

Here's some of the Tech Specs:

Speed max. 15,000 R.P.M. (drive)
Speed max. 15,000 R.P.M. (tool spindle)
Gear ratio i 1:1
Torque max. 20 Nm
Temperature max. 85° C / 185° F
Angle adjustment 0 – 100°

Remember we can attach the Vario Visio head to HSK, CAT and BT flanges to suit your specific machine. Just like our other Vario units you can use a combination of connections including ER 25/saw blade or a 30 mm saw blade connection flange and pitch circle of 45/52 mm with integrated Weldon connection diameter up to 10 mm.

The rotating direction of the head can be left or right, but remember, the spindle rotating direction opposite drive rotating direction

Features:

Digital display of adjusted angle
One single clamping screw
Conical pin for 0° reference adjustment
Aggregate can be rotated 360° around drive

Super-Charge Your #CNC ToolHolders with Shrink-fit Extensions

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:51:00 +0000

Shrink Fit extensions fit into any toolholder

TechniksUSA Shrink Fit Extensions

Get the most out of your tool holders by adding shrink-fit extensions to your tool crib. These handy extensions add shrink-fit capability and reach without the expense of buying dedicated shrink-fit toolholders. They work great with Techniks'low-cost induction heat shrink machine the TechnoSHRINK 2.

Shrink fit extensions are used with most types of tool holders including: collet chucks, shrink-fit holders, hydraulic chucks, milling chucks, end mill holders, etc. They hold cutting tool shank sizes of: 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", and 5/8".

Features:

More rigid and better T.I.R. than collet extensions
Extended reach and slim design fits tight clearances
Works with your existing tool holder inventory

Benefits:

Lower cost than any other shrink fit system!
Improved rigidity makes carbide cutting tools last longer
Eliminates purchasing dedicated shrink-fit tool holders

#Eastec 2011 PROMO: TechniksUSA Booth 5132

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:03:00 +0000

Eastec

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Technology meets

State-of-the-Art Communications

TechniksUSA will be at the #Eastec and conference in booth 5132 May 17 - 19, 2011. EASTEC is three days of straightforward insight into vital manufacturing technologies, progressive management strategies, the latest lean thinking, and clear advice on making your operations greener.

Grand Prize: NTS Toolholder Set-up fixture

We want to improve our communications to our customers so we've created a promotion just for those who are following us on Twitter, us on Facebook or became our friend on Foursquare.

Two easy ways to enter:

Check in on Foursquare and become a "friend" of TechniksUSA
Click "I'm attending" on our #Eastec Facebook Event Page

Show us that you did either of these on your smartphone at the show and you will receive either a sleeve of Nike Golf Balls or a Techniks Golf shirt. You'll then be entered to win our Grand Prize at the end of the show.

TechniksUSA Golf Shirt

TechniksUSA Golf Balls

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Can the sPINer help your company Deburr? It's not for everyone...

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:37:00 +0000

Process Benefits

Eliminate expensive and time-consuming manual methods!
Many manufacturers of small parts are required to deburr parts by hand due to several factors (critical tolerances, burrs in the ID, external threads, light/thin areas prone to damage, etc.). The sPINner uses a very small stainless pin media available in sizes under 0.008” diameter. This allows the sPINner to deburr areas without damage to critical tolerances and can deburr even very thin work-pieces without deforming the parts.

Deburr ID areas and small holes!
The small size of the media driven by a magnetic field allows the sPINner to deburr ID areas and cross-holes not possible with other technologies. The small size if the media (to under 0.008” diameter) can help deburr holes from 0.010” and up.

Deburr parts with external threads!
External threads pose a problem for traditional deburring technologies since the threads would be damaged from grinding of the media. The sPINner media is not destructive to threads. In fact, due to the small size of the media it can help remove galling or chattering lines at the base of the thread and help gently smooth threads without damage.

Eliminate media jamming!
The deburring media used in the sPINner does not have the same breakdown characteristics of ceramic media used in other technologies. Traditional ceramic media is designed to breakdown during processing. This results in the media changing size and dimensions over time that can begin to jam in the parts. The stainless steel media used in the sPINner does not suffer from this limitation and will not dimensionally change. The sPINner media last about 2-3 years in most applications. This means a media size can be used without the fear of jamming!

Eliminate parts washing after deburring!
Parts typically need washed after processing in other technologies due to the fact these processes leave a residue of ceramic or porcelain sludge or dust on the parts. The stainless media used in the sPINner does not create this sludge. The result is that parts come out of the sPINner clean. This can eliminate the need for a separate washing after deburring saving both time and money!

Eliminate sludge in the wastewater!
As mentioned above, other technologies use a media (ceramic or porcelain) that breaks-down during processing parts. This leaves sludge in the wastewater that needs removed before the water can be either drained or recycled. The sPINner uses a stainless media that does not breakdown during processing like ceramic media. The result is the wastewater is free of sludge. This can help eliminate the separate processing of the wastewater to remove the sludge saving money.

Reduce cycle times!
Cycle times in the sPINner vary according to the specific application. However, generally the cycle times in the sPINner are a fraction of the time required in traditional vibratory or tumbling technologies. The table below gives some guidelines on cycle times.

Material Est. Cycle Times

Aluminum 5-15 minutes
Brass 5-20 minutes
Copper 5-20 minutes
Stainless Steel 10-20 minutes
Titanium 10-30 minutes
Steel 10-30 minutes

Again, the individual application will determine the actual cycle time required.

Fits Any Size Operation!
The sPINner is available in four sizes ranging from desktop units with 6” diameter containers to floor standing models with 21” diameter containers. There is a sPINner to fit both centralized deburring and cell manufacturing!

If you are interested if the sPINner can help with your small parts deburring application, send a few parts to:
Earth-Chain USA
9930 East 56th Street.
Indianapolis, IN 46236
Attn: John Swann

What kind of burr can the sPINner magnetic deburring remove?

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:19:00 +0000

What kind of burr can the sPINner remove?

We are often asked, “What kind of burr will the sPINner remove?” The standard answer is “a light burr”. This answer leaves a lot of room for interpretation. What is a light burr to some will be a heavy burr to others.

The rule of “Thumb”:

In order to form an initial evaluation if the sPINner will work on a particular part try the rule of “thumb”. As a general rule, if you can take a fingernail and remove the burr, the part has a good chance of testing well in the sPINner. Burrs heavier than this may tend to roll and flatten, but not be removed during the process.

A quick lesson on burrs:

To the left is a drawing of a cross-section of a burr on a part. From the drawing you can see some main areas we will be concerned with; the part itself (parent metal), the burr thickness at root, burr thickness, and burr height.

Light Burrs
A lighter burr can be loosely defined as a burr with a thin thickness at root (B₁). As the amount of material holding the burr to the parent metal increases, a more aggressive deburring action is required to remove the burr. Using this definition it is possible to have burrs that are tall, yet are “lighter” by our definition because the thickness at the root is small. Burrs of this type are good candidates for the sPINner.

Short Heavy Burrs
An example of short, yet heavy burrs are the ridges created from drilling. When a drill breaks through a part a ridge is pushed up around the hole on the side where the drill breaks through. While this ridge can be short in burr height (H₀), the thickness at burr root is wide. Often this material is more a part of the parent metal than the burr. These burrs will not be good candidates for the sPINner as a very aggressive and abrasive action that has a high stock removal rate is required to remove these burrs.

Brittle Materials
Another factor to weigh in this process is the material itself. More brittle materials will tend to have the burr break away from the part (parent metal) making the sPINner a good option.

Softer Materials
Softer or more malleable material will tend to have the burr roll and flatten. Softer materials need to have a thinner thickness at root to be good candidates for the sPINner.

If you have a question regarding if the sPINner may work in a particular application, please contact Michael Harris or John Swann Earth-Chain USA at 317-842-8934

Little Pins Pack A Powerful Punch for Medical Devices

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:07:00 +0000

The famous actress Judy Garland is said to have adlibbed about fellow child-star Micky Rooney: "It's the little things that matter". For central Indiana based Greenwood Machine, little burrs in a 1mm slot, mattered a lot.
Even the smallest burrs were not acceptable for this critical tolerance (0.0001” air motor. The company had an opportunity to diversify into the medical industry, manufacturing an air motor for a biopsy device that takes breast tissue samples for diagnostic analysis. Metal burrs left over from the manufacturing process were a part quality problem that had to be solved before they could move ahead with the project. These burrs could not be removed with conventional tumbling equipment, and that limited Greenwood Machine's ability to provide the quality and quantity of parts the customer needed.

While looking for alternative deburring technologies, they discovered the sPINner small parts deburring machine. They found that it's unique stainless steel pin media was able to quickly deburr the small slots.

With 25 years in the business, Greenwood Machine's owner Fred McWilliams has loads of experience producing small, complex parts. His business began machining small, precision parts (primarily RF connectors) for the electronics industry, and has grown to include a variety of quick-setup, short run jobs, and also some high-end bicycle components.

When the opportunity to manufacturer the air pump came up, Fred decided to move quickly and increase capacity by purchasing a bar-fed, Citizen/Cincom M32 CNC swiss-type turning machine to expedite production of the air pump.

This configuration allowed them to perform 3 operations at once, giving them a big advantage in cycle time. Their customer asked that they produce prototypes within 3 weeks of the CNC machine hitting their floor.

During the few weeks they had to set-up the machine and begin running prototypes, the deburring problem was discovered by Manufacturing Engineering Manager Joe Bowman. Joe's background includes experience with ISO 9001 certification and 8 years in CNC machining. He manages all the manufacturing processes even down to the CNC programs and setups. "This part is a cylindrical rotor that has 6, 1mm slots, each cross-drilled twice. The burrs in the 1mm slots could not be reached with our conventional tumbling deburring equipment, and our only other options were deburring by hand or sending the parts out for electrolytic deburring". said Joe. Both options were unacceptable due to the additional cost and time they added to the production cycle.

Joe had heard about the sPINner from Earth-Chain, and sent some sample parts to Mike Andrews for testing. A few days later the parts were returned, completely deburred, with a report documenting the media used and the run time (20 minutes).

Pleased with the results, Fred and Joe went ahead and purchased the sPINner and have been very satisfied with it. “This machine paid for itself in about a year. It reduced our cycle time, and gave us the ability to control quality in house.” said Joe.

The sPINner saved Greenwood Machine 17% on the cost to deburr each part compared to hand or electrolytic deburring, and even though they expect to nearly double production this year, they know deburring will not be a bottleneck.

According to Bowman “The sPINner is unlike other deburring technologies because the media is stainless steel pins, hardened to HRC 30 for long life. These special pins are why the sPINner can deburr small, complex parts so well.”

The parts and pins are placed in a deburring container and media solution is added. Next, the container is put into the machine and the cycle time and rotation speed is set. While it runs the pins are activated by a rotating magnetic plate underneath the deburring container. This causes the pins to rapidly reverse polarity, and jump up and down from 1 to 3 inches while rotating in the deburring container along with the parts. The parts and pins "spin" together to perform the deburring. The sPINner can even deburr internal cavities like slots and cross-drilled holes other media cannot reach.

Michael Harris, Vice President at Precision Finishing said: “The sPINner works best on small, precision parts made from non-ferrous metals including aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, and even titanium.” The aggressiveness of the deburring is controlled by programming the speed of the magnetic plate and selecting from a variety of media sizes. The machine is easily programmed and can run unattended.

For more information on the sPINner contact Michael Harris at (877) 354-3837, or visit them at: www.earthchain.com. Michael's email address is: mharris@earthchain.com

Techniks Bar & Grille at IMTS2010 & TweetUps!

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:52:00 +0000

TechniksUSA Bar & Grill
IMTS2010 Hours: 11am-5pm Daily

FREE BEER! No Kidding! The "Techniks Bar & Grill" opens up at DAILY at 11AM, just in time for our DualDRIVE demonstration, and closes at 5PM.

Stop by, relax, have a drink on us and find out about all of our new products to help you make more money!

TechniksUSA Booth W-1636 Daily "TweetUps"

9:30am 'Shrink Fit Machines' - Understanding Shrink Fit & how it works

10:00am 'sPINner Deburring' - Sit & Spin: the easiest way to magnetically debur parts!

10:30am 'Coolant Products' - CoolBLAST, CoolFLEX, Coolant Collets & Coolant Rings - Learn about various ways to seal your Rotary Toolholders

11:00am 'DualDRIVE Toolholders' - Improve Rigidity, Tool Life & Surface Finish with our Dual Contact Toolholders

2:00pm Pinzbohr boring and modular tooling systems - Modular Boring to improve shop efficiency.

2:30pm Workholding - 'Electro-Permanent Magnetic Workholding Chucks'

3:00pm 'Collet Chuck's - Power Coat Nut, Inspection and Balance Reports, DNA collets are "dead nuts accurate"

3:30pm Workholding - 'MagVise': perform complex 5-sided machining on a manual magnetic vise

CoolFlex Toolholders have Multiple Coolant Paths

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:12:00 +0000

CoolFLEX collet chucks and end mill holders feature a coolant path that can be switched from coolant-through-spindle to DIN style coolant simply by removing two setscrews.

Now you don't have to buy machine-specific toolholders!

This feature can save thousands of dollars when compared to the cost of tooling-up both coolant- through and DIN coolant spindles.

CoolFlex holders are available for CAT40 and CAT50 spindles, in ER collet chuck and End Mill holder styles. The collet chucks are available in sizes in ER16, ER20, ER25, ER32 & ER40 and are balanced to 18,000 RPM. The end mill holder styles range from ID 1/4” to ID 1-1/4” and are balanced to 10,000 RPM.

All CoolFlex holders are factory set for the coolant-through-spindle application and can be changed to DIN style by the user. CoolFlex collet chucks come with Techniks’ “Power Coat” nut that increases clamping power on the tool shank up to 75%.

ER Collets for Maximum Flexibility

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:20:00 +0000

ER Collets: standard, sealed, ultra-precision,
tapping, rigid tapping, & quickchange

The Flexible ER Collet System is designed to handle a wide range of machining tasks without the expense of buying new tool holders. The machinist simply chooses the right collet for the job, sets his tool, and tightens the collet nut to the proper torque.

ER Collets are available for:

Drilling,
Milling,
Tapping
Rigid Tapping
Floating Tap
Quick Change Tap
Coolant Thru, and
Plug Sealed Collets
Steel Sealed Collets
High-Speed applications

Special "DNA" Dead Nuts Accurate collets are used for small drills (6mm and smaller) to maintain T.I.R. at those sizes.

The system consists of a precision ER tool holder that comes with a special "Power Coated" high power nut that holds tighter than any other nuts.

Techniks stocks collets in precision and ultra-precision styles, in sizes from ER8, ER11, ER16, ER20, ER25, ER32 & ER40. Holders are available for CAT, HSK, BT, and ISO spindle types. Each tool holder comes with a lab certification documenting accuracy and balance test results so the buyer can be assured of top quality. All Techniks products are backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
www.techniksusa.com e-mail: info@techniksusa.com

DualDRIVE Holders for DUAL-CONTACT

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:17:00 +0000

DualDRIVE Holders for DUAL-CONTACT

Improve Rigidity & T.I.R. with Taper AND Flange contact

DUAL-CONTACT machining means the spindle face contacts the tool holder flange for improved performance. DualDRIVE works with standard and non-standard spindles. Call for details.

Choose from a wide range of DualDRIVE
toolholders including:

ER Collet Chucks,
End Mill Holders,
Shrink-Fit Holders, and
Shell Mill Arbors

Use DualDRIVE when high material removal rates and improved surface finish are desired.

Features

Improves rigidity, reduces vibration - even on standard spindles!
Increase feed rates up to 20%
Extend tool life and reduce scrap
CoolFLEX DIN B coolant feature

Are you installing your Collets correctly?

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:01:00 +0000

1. Snap collet into nut.

2. Insert cutter into collet.
Collets without counter bore require shank
to extend to the bottom of the collet.

3. Hand tighten collet nut assembly into tool holder.

4. Insert tool holder assembly into
tightening fixture and secure it.

5. Tighten collet nut to recommended torque
using a torque wrench and adapter.

Installing ER (DR, RD, ESX) , style collets is very common in every machine shop and tool & die shop, but is everyone doing it CORRECTLY?

Did you know that there is a torque specification on your collets?

Many people use a cheater bar to tighten down collets believing that the "tighter is better" but that's not always the case. Like all toolholding collets, ER style collets are spring collets with a 30 degree front taper and a 16 degree back taper (a "free releasing 'locking-taper" just like your steep taper toolholder)

When the 16 degree taper "locks" and you continue to over-torque the collet nut, the collet can twist and, under the normal load of cutting conditions, the cutting tool will run-out. Be sure and check out our website and see the torque chart to make sure that you are getting the most tool-life out of your end mills and cutting tools.

A toolholder set-up fixture that easily mounts
to your Huot, Lista, or Rousseau Tool Cart

We also recommend using a tightening fixture and torque wrench to make sure cutting tools and retention knobs are properly tightened.

Over-tightening can distort or even crack collets, causing runout problems and premature failure of the collet, nut, tool holder and cutting tool.

Under-tightening can also cause poor cutting performance, or allow cutting tools to fly out of the spindle – a very serious safety hazard.

Improve Tool Life Up to 5 Times on Small Diameter Drills

noreply@blogger.com (TechniksUSA) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:05:00 +0000

TechniksUSA DNA collets: 5 times tool life improvement!

DNA Collets (Dead Nuts Accurate!) from Techniks are proven to improve carbide tool life significantly.

If you are using carbide drills 6mm and smaller and getting inconsistent tool life, it is more than likely that your collet is the problem. The reason is because standard collets at these drill sizes do not provide consistent T.I.R., so wear is increased. Studies have proven that T.I.R. is a major factor in tool life for small diameter drills. Techniks created DNA Collets to fix this problem and extend the life of small diameter carbide drills.

The unique design of DNA collets provides the customer with consistent T.I.R. readings and accuracy that boost the life of carbide drills. The beauty of this system is that it is used with any standard ER 16 collet chuck.

For more information, or to locate a distributor in your area contact Nick at (800) 597-3921, or e-mail at: ntuttle@techniksusa.com.
Visit our on-line catalog at www.techniksusa.com
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