BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc.

The large-diameter 318 series is a tooling system designed for twin cutter rough boring, precision finish boring and precision OD turning operations for the diameter range of 7.87" to 24.41".

BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling has expanded the Kaiser KAB modular tooling system capabilities to include the rigid, high-feed C-Cutter Mini chamfer mill line from BIG Daishowa Seiki.  

There’s no good or bad timing. Moving ahead is the thing.

The CKN modular connection for large boring tools features a three-screw interface, providing high clamping forces for maximum torque transmission.

Cutting tool manufacturer BIG Kaiser (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) says its in-house repair center can fix tools at a fraction of the cost and time involved in shipping tools abroad for repair.

BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling has expanded its turning tool line to include HSK-T63 tools for mill-turn centers (MTCs).

 The company says its synchronous tapping holder, the Mega Synchro, compensates for synchronization error during rigid tapping by reducing the thrust load to both the tap and workpiece.

Cutting tool manufacturer Big Kaiser Precision Tooling has opened a new corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

 BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling’s CKN modular connection utilizes both steel and lightweight aluminum components.

Cutting tool manufacturer BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling has opened a new corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

BIG Kaiser’s 44-page, full-color catalog details the complete line of BIG Coromant Capto C5/C6/C8 turning and rotating tooling. The expanded Capto product line includes Mega Micro and shrink-fit holders; extended gage lengths for the Mega N and Mega E series; and more than 500 rotating and turning tools that are available from stock.

BIG Kaiser offers two balancing accessories for the 112 series EWN precision boring heads. Balance rings and radial adjustable holders allow compensation for imbalance in tool assemblies for diameters ranging from 0.

BIG-Plus CAT50 shell mill adapters from BIG Kaiser are now available in standard 8", 10" and 12" gage lengths on 1" and 1½" pilot diameters and 4" and 6" lengths on a 1¼" pilot diameter. For increased rigidity, the 10" and 12" lengths with the 1" pilot diameter feature a tapered body.

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BIG Kaiser has expanded its BIG-Plus line of toolholders by introducing extended gage lengths for its shell mill adapters and shrink-fit toolholders. The line’s CAT50 shell mill adapters are available standard in 8", 10" and 12" gage lengths on 1" and 1½" pilot diameters and 4" and 6" lengths on a 1¼" pilot diameter.

Some amount of synchronization error is inevitable with rigid tapping. By allowing just a slight amount of axial movement to compensate for synchronous errors, this tapping holder is said to reduce thrust load by as much as 90 percent.

Cutting tool manufacturer Big Kaiser Precision Tooling recently began construction of a new corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The new facility, which will be nearly three times larger than the company’s current headquarters, will be used for administration, application engineering, inventory, testing and training.

BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling has expanded its Phoenix drill series, which is part of the Sphinx product line. The solid carbide Phoenix drill is said to offer more productivity than conventional solid carbide counterparts.

An expert in micromachining says one answer is to check various aspects of the drilling process. Another answer is not to use a drill at all.

 The Mega Synchro tapping holder compensates for synchronization error during rigid tapping by reducing the thrust load to both the tap and workpiece, improving thread quality and tap life. This is facilitated through a mechanism that absorbs the pitch difference between the tap and synchronous spindle. Capable of supplying coolant through slits to the tap periphery, the holder is available in various lengths and spindle interfaces to suit any company’s needs.

Hummingbird takes on machining work that is too small for most shops to handle. In fact, Hummingbird tries not to handle it either. To accurately machine the tiniest parts, this shop relies on processes that are as hands-off as possible.

The EWB-UP ultra precision finish boring head is part of a series of boring tools with fine-adjusting resolution (0. 00005" on diameter for inch-graduated heads and 0. 001-mm steps of diameter corrections).

In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Heinz Kaiser AG recently hosted a company tour and formal reception at its Rumlang, Switzerland facility. Founded in 1948 by Heinz Kaiser, the company specializes in the development and manufacturing of high-precision modular tooling systems. Attendees toured the Kaiser facility in small groups, giving them the chance to observe the high precision and quality control checks that go into producing Kaiser tools, the company says.

In this shop, high speed machining makes sense at 4,000 rpm. While the disciplines the shop put in place made a new 15,000-rpm profiler dramatically more productive, high speed machining would have remained valuable even if the new machine never came. Acoording to a co-owner of this shop, high speed machining has no need for speed.

Rigid toolholding offers a platform for productivity on this pump manufacturer's mill-turn center.

Tool measurement devices help shops save time, control runout and improve tool management.

Increased demand for armor plating components led this shop to completely revamp its machining technique. Rather than machining individual workpieces, the shop produces multiple components nested in an aluminum plate. A custom vacuum workholding system plays a significant role in this new strategy.

Small-diameter micromachining tools require very high rpm for sufficient cutting speed and material removal rates. This air spindle provides 80,000 rpm and an untethered compressed air interface to allow automatic changeovers using the machine's ATC.

A seemingly small amount of runout can still be too large for the tool. Reduce this runout, and tool life or productivity may dramatically increase.

The solid end mill is a machine shop staple. Its positive cutting edge removes metal by slicing through the material, rather than by scraping.

Shop leadership was looking for a way to reduce the time it took to complete a very difficult boring job. The job took 21 minutes per part to complete with multiple roughing and finishing processes. It required 10 minutes of hone time.

Precision boring is particularly vulnerable to unbalance, but not every high speed boring application demands a balanceable tool.

Some people think tool presetting can be justified only in large operations. This Arizona shop shows how it makes sense almost anywhere.

V&L Tool, Inc., located in a Milwaukee suburb, had to solve one of its toughest boring problems before beginning the manufacturing of a new hydraulic jack.