Illinois Students Build, Race High-Mileage Vehicles Teams from James B. Conant High School and Rolling Meadows High School enjoyed a VIP experience at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after winning their own race in the Illinois Energy Efficient Vehicle Competition last month in Joliet. Students from 15 Illinois schools participated in the third annual competition, giving […]
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GTI Spindle Technology Joins the Ranks of North America’s BIG-PLUS® Licensed Spindle Rebuilders BIG Daishowa Seiki Co. Ltd., our parent company, recently granted another BIG-PLUS® license, making spindle rebuilding and maintenance service more accessible than ever. Now, BIG-PLUS® users have yet another option when looking for authorized rebuilders or to upgrade their existing spindle to BIG-PLUS®. GTI Spindle
Don’t Just Rely on Collet Chucks to Hold Taps Have you had a chance to read our recent article that appears in the Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine? Our engineering and product manager, Alan Miller, informs readers about different ways to set up tapping operations and discusses the benefits of dedicated tap holders which absorb synchronization
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Higher Performance Holemaking with Easy Tooling Adjustments Learn how to trim once four-hour jobs down to just 40 minutes by turning to a simple, yet powerfully versatile, alternative to helical interpolation, in the recent Fabricating & Metalworking magazine column by BIG KAISER’s applications manager and KAISER product manager, Matt Tegelman. Matt suggests twin cutter boring heads can
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The Perfect Tool for Heavy-Duty Rough Boring Limitations of using milling tools to prepare holes for finishing become apparent as hole depth and volume increase. This is where BIG KAISER’s Series 319SW Twin Cutter boring head showcases its capabilities and can solve the issue along with virtually any other holemaking problem for the range of
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The Streak Ends Is IMTS 2020 going to go on as planned? I think we would all like to see that happen, but the jury is still out. Regardless, my personal streak, which currently stands at 24 consecutive IMTS shows will come to an end in September. If the show goes on it would mark
Industry-leading Mega ER Grip Collet Chuck Now Offered with Modular KAB Connection BIG Kaiser now offers BIG Daishowa’s high precision Mega ER Grip with the KAISER modular KAB connection, allowing custom collet chuck configurations with standard components. The Mega ER Grip was designed to outperform all other ER systems in the four most critical areas of tool
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The Key to Eliminating Pullout Introducing the new Mega Perfect Grip milling chuck Pullout is a major issue facing manufacturers using milling chucks, especially when machining heat-resistant super alloys (HRSA) like titanium or inconel. BIG Kaiser offers a new solution with the Mega Perfect Grip milling chuck, a highly accurate milling tool holder with fully
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KAISER Collaborates with Blaser to Find Best Boring Results in Titanium Collaboration with industry partners is paramount for those of us in the metalworking industry. Our European compatriots at KAISER recently teamed with Blaser Swisslube, Hasle-Rüegsau, Switzerland, to search for the best combination of boring tool and metalworking fluid for titanium cutting. As Mark Albert, chief editor
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Do the Math – Runout Accuracy Pays /**/ After years of close observation and collaboration with manufacturing companies of all sizes, BIG Daishowa engineers have learned how the choice of tool holders affects production costs on the shop floor. By choosing an inexpensive tool holder to cut corners at the point of sale, shop owners are
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