Product category:
Workholding - miscellaneous clamping systems, components
News Release from: Micron Workholding (Microloc) | Subject: RotoLoc 12 core/faceplate assembly
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 July 2002
Clamp on four sides, machine three faces
Representing a new departure in 4th and 5th axis machining, a core/faceplate assembly offers four sided clamping together with three face machining.
The RotoLoc 12 from Micron Workholding, represents a new departure in 4th and 5th axis machining RotoLoc 12 is a core/faceplate assembly, which offers four sided clamping together with three face machining
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 23 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The MicroLoc workholding system is a versatile, and expandable, means of clamping square, rectangular, or round parts relative to known datum positions.
Clamping system enables substantial time saving
A modular, long-stroke clamping system, used in a twin-pallet M-C, does the work in a quarter of the time needed to set up and machine with conventional clamping.
Each RotoLoc 12 consists of a faceplate, tailor made to suit the customer1s machine, and a core which is machined to accept the standard MicroLoc hard or soft jaw clamps and locators.
Three core sizes are available to suit the MicroLoc 50, 60 and 75 series clamping systems.
The RotoLoc 12 is normally used without tailstock or A-frame support to take advantage of 5th axis machining capabilities.
The MicroLoc hard system offers the conventional hardened jaws with the option of a wide range of workblades, plain hardened, vee jaws and serrated jaws for varied types of work.
The soft system provides one piece steel or aluminium locators and soft steel or aluminium soft sliding jaws to accept machined profiles for irregularly shaped work.
The faceplate, once fitted, can stay on the machine and the core can be changed quickly to suit whichever size of application is required.
The 50, 60 and 75 series clamping systems will all fit on the same faceplate.
As an added bonus, an extra Rotoloc 12 can be pre loaded off the machine in readiness to be swapped when the machining cycle has finished, thereby reducing downtime to a minimum.
(This was Manufacturingtalk's Top Story on 11 July 2002).
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