Drake Manufacturing Services Co. Showroom

Drake Manufacturing designs, builds and services state-of-the-art precision CNC grinding, rack milling and gear hobbing machines that help maximize productivity, improve quality and reduce production costs for a wide variety of demanding applications.

Over the years we have developed a complete line of machines for producing each major component in modern steering gear systems. Our machines fit easily into a cell environment and can be equipped with our latest automation packages. From hydraulic rack nuts to rack and pinion to e-steer, few builders offer the breadth and depth of steering component experience that we do.

Drake Linear Motor Thread Grinders combine a host of advanced machine design and grinding technologies in one package including a 180° power helix, linear motors and ways, latest Fanuc controls programmed with customer parts, acoustic touch dressing, automatically generated wheel forms and a mineral filled cast polymer base.

Drake Manufacturing’s new GS:TE/I-LM grinders has something that no other universal grinder has: the ability to continuously vary the A-axis helix (wheel angle) during the grind cycle.

Typically, grinders have a manual or power wheel helix that allows for changes between jobs, but not during the actual grind cycle. Drake’s new CNC wheel helix allows grinding variable leads on internal and external threads, and constant leads on tapered parts. The wheel helix can grind +/- 90° lead angles for external threads +/- 10° for internal threads, depending on diameter and length of the part, tooling and other setup parameters.