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In-Process Quality Check Ensures Production Doesn’t Skip a Beat
There are many fundamentals when it comes to success from the shop floor. Among them are keeping your equipment running at peak levels for on-time delivery and ensuring your product quality is high. More out the door and no scrap on the floor, so to speak. An important measure to attain this is to gage …
Taking on Tough Internal and External Shape Making
Tough materials such as hardened steel and high-temperature alloys pose challenges for machining applications of all types. This is also true for rotary broaching, a rapid manufacturing technique that creates ID and OD shapes in one pass and in seconds on any CNC lathe or machining center. Due to its ease and speed, rotary broaching …
Finding the Best Broaching Solution
When your shop gets a new job or is looking for a faster and less expensive solution to producing a part, the research begins on which manufacturing method is best for your application. There are a number of factors that need to be considered when looking into different manufacturing methods: feasibility, price, delivery time, etc. …
Slater Tools: Where Precision Tools Take Shape
It is Slater Tools’ mission to design, manufacture and support the highest quality, most competitive rotary broaching tools, inspection gauges, punch broaches, live centers, and screw machine tooling. For over 6 decades, we have continued to do this by combining qualified, dedicated people with state of the art technology. Our service and quality is known as …
Solving Manufacturing Problems Through Rotary Broaching
INTRODUCTION When the term “broaching” is used in the manufacturing industry, most think of conventional step broaching which involves pushing or pulling a toothed bar through a part on a press. It is a method that has been around since the beginning of (manufacturing) time. The problem with conventional broaching is that it has application …
Rotary Broaching: The Hole Thing Takes Shape
Rotary Broaching: The Hole Thing Takes Shape Solving manufacturing problems through rotary broaching When people hear the term “broaching”, most think of conventional step broaching, which involves pushing or pulling a toothed bar through a part on a press. It is a method that has been around since the beginning of (manufacturing) time. The problem …
The Dynamic Art of Gear Broaching
Rotary Broaching: Getting Your Machines into Shape, By Jeff Tryles, Director of Sales, Slater Tools, Inc. A fast and efficient machining method, rotary broaching is used for making squares, hexes, splines, serrations, keyways, Torx-type, and a range of many other internal and external polygon shapes on a work piece. If your shop uses machines such …
Getting More from your Shop Floor
A fast and efficient machining method, rotary broaching is used for making squares, hexes, splines, serrations, keyways, Torx-type and a range of many other internal and external polygon shapes on a workpiece. If your shop uses machines such as CNC lathes and mills, Swiss-type machines and machining centers, then you already have the capability to …
Create Small External Forms on Slater Tools’ Internal Rotary Broach Tool Holder
Slater Tools’ line of external rotary broaches greatly reduces manufacturing costs for our customers. Using the same tool holder, customers are able to produce both internal/ID and external/OD forms by simply interchanging the broaches. Slater Tools’ line of small external broaches allows customers to produce external forms as small as .056″ and up to .225″ …
New Slater Tools Adjustment Free Rotary Broach Tool Holder NOT Just for Swiss Type Machines
New Slater Tools Adjustment Free Rotary Broaching Tool Holder NOT just for Swiss Type Machines Adjustment-Free Rotary Broaching Tool: The latest Slater Tools Rotary Broach Holder eliminates Secondary Operations and upgrades machine capacity to produce larger internal forms. Slater Tools 3700 Series Adjustment Free Rotary Broaching Tool Holder is the largest holder of its type …