November 2005 Issue

November 2005

Unattended Honing On A Vertical Chucker

An air-gage-monitored honing system added to an inverted vertical spindle chucking lathe allows unattended turning, boring and honing on one machine for greater process flexibility.

Features

Featured articles from the November 2005 issue of Modern Machine Shop

26 Sep 2005

As The Turn/Mill Concept Evolves, Is New Terminology Needed?

This series of turn/mill machines combines the full turning capability of a pure turning center and the full millig capability of a machining center. Design features address critical issues of vibration and heat.

Grinding 8 Nov 2005

Milling On A Grinding Machine

A grinding machine is not a machining center, but it can sometimes take on milling and drilling (or even turning) to make the overall process more efficient.

Machining Centers 8 Nov 2005

Rethinking Redundancy

Series production is a more economical choice today, says this supplier of machining systems. Machining technology is now reliable enough that parallel production may represent a costly level of excess in high-volume production.

Composites Machining 11 Nov 2005

Machining Composites By Conventional Means

Composites machining is dusty, messy and hard on tools. But this company accepts these difficulties, and machines the material using standard metalworking processes and equipment.

Turn/Mill 6 Oct 2005

Cylinder Head Porting On A Turn/Mill Machine

This complex milling operation is performed effectively on a machine that does turning.

Grinding 15 Nov 2005

Getting The Most From Creep-Feed Grinding

No other process can do what creep-feed grinding can do. Recent tests show even more can be gained by optimizing every element of a creep-feed system.