When something is hard to hold in manufacturing it requires special fixtures. We highlighted a previous video of the fixturing to make this part and now you’ll get to see the importance of those fixtures in use.
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Hello everyone and welcome to another short video highlighting some of the contour tools, capabilities, and also some of the projects we’ve been working on. If you recall our last video, we highlighted the contour tool’s ability to manufacture and design its own fixturing, making the fixtures on our CNC equipment. Today, we’re going to show you the outcome of that, and we’ll show you the parts that we’re running on them. So if you join us out in the shop, we’ll go over that product. Thank you.
Okay, here we are in front of one of our CC horizontal machining centers, and here’s our fixture for our first operation, our first holding, and this is the part that we’re going to be machining. This is probably about 3,500 pieces a year. Of course, it’s made out of cast iron, and here’s the fixture. Once again, we made this fixture right on the CNC machine, which enabled us to shorten our lead time for our customer. If we take a closer look, we can show you what we’re doing here. As you can see, we have two parts here, and we also have two of the same on the back. We chuck up the part like so, then we go ahead and mill it and do all of our machining work on this side here, putting in notches and creating precision holes.
These are plus or minus one and plus or minus two. This bore in the middle is also plus or minus one, but it’s also at a one-degree or two-degree angle. So we’re able to machine all of this in the first chucking. Now what we’ll do is bring out pallet two to show you the second chucking. Okay, here’s our second work holding. Once again, these pictures were made right on the CNC machine, and we have the same scenario. We have two parts in the front and two parts in the back, and they’re all chucked up the same. We’ll get a closer look here. What we do is locate those two precision holes and chuck them up. We perform our planned machining on this side here. We put the holes here, tap all the holes, and we’re also able to index it and go ahead and work on the inside with the slots and drilled-through tapped holes. This milling on the inside is also at a two-degree angle and is perpendicular to that board. By looking at this part, we’re able to complete this in two chuckings. That’s it for the day. I’d like to invite anyone out there to take a look at our website, and if you have a product or a project that you need us to consider, I’m very confident that our tools can handle your requirements. Everyone have a productive day, and thank you for joining us.