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Chucks and collets for rotational work
News Release from: Crawford Collets | Subject: Workholding and collets
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 April 2002
Collets producer offers specialist
workholding
High quality tool and workholding parts maker is renowned for its ability to produce innovative solutions to production problems by designing and manufacturing "specials" quickly.
Crawford Collets, premier manufacturer of tool and workholding equipment, will be showing a selection from its comprehensive range at MACH 2002, developed over more than one hundred years of providing production solutions to the manufacturing industry worldwide The company has an established reputation for the highest quality products and is fully accredited with the requirements of BS EN ISO 9001
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Sep 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Wide selection of workholding equipment on view
At the Tooling Show this year Crawfords will be exhibiting a selection from its extensive range of specials as well as its comprehensive range of standard collets, collet chucks and tooling.
Collets improve run-out for tooling
The ER/ESX collets, manufactured to DIN 6499-B, set new standards of run-out and repeatability of 6 microns for types ER16 to ER40 whilst being priced at standard collet cost.
Crawfords specializes in providing high quality tool and workholding parts and is renowned for its ability to produce innovative solutions to production problems by designing and manufacturing "specials" quickly and cost effectively for any application.
At the show, it will be demonstrating its capacity to respond to a customer's specific requirements, however difficult the holding or production task, by working in the widest possible range of materials and using its design bank of over 35,000 variations of collets, tool and workholding parts.
In addition to demonstrating its design and manufacturing capabilities it will be showing the ER collet holders and ER collets to 6499, collet chucks for collets to DIN 6499 and ER tapping collets.
R8 collets, and tooling, Supergrip collet systems, double angle collet systems, Wickman and Browne and Sharpe collet and feed fingers will also be on display, as well as a selection from its wide range of collet chucks including 5C and 16C dead length collet chucks, drawback multibore chucks and quick change drawback collet chucks.
Crawfords will also be demonstrating the new Dicksons RX 48 position indexing toolpost with 1/4 turn clamp/unclamp fast indexing mechanism and through coolant.
Managing Director of Crawfords, Gerry Wilkin, said "Demonstrating our range is very difficult, because our customers buy from us primarily because we offer an exceptional service combined with the expertise and experience within the company to take an innovative and imaginative view of a production problem and provide a bespoke solution.
It is within the typical working day for us to design and manufacture collets for applications most companies would shy away from, for instance the manufacture of hip joints, contact lenses, beer cans.
We are confident that, as optimism returns to the industry, MACH 2002 will be a successful and promising show for us".
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