December 14, 2018
Today I want to show you something that generally manufacturers don't really want to share with the rest of the world but, we are going to do it anyway.
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December 05, 2018
This is a round modular fixture that is going into an OKUMA Trunion Type 5 Axis machine. And, as you can see, we have set it up with a standard two inch pattern, just like we have talked about before. it has got the new fastener in it and it has also got the multi-purpose holes. We have talked about them before but, as you can see, it is a bored and threaded hole.
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November 02, 2018
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I remember how I came to the point I wanted to develop this vise in the first place. I was walking through a customer’s plant, a large aerospace company, and they pointed over to where they were running a competitor’s dovetail vise. Now, at the time, we didn’t have one, but, they mentioned that it was not very stable, and I thought to myself that we can do better...
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October 24, 2018
Today, I’ve got this interesting looking aerospace part. I thought I would go through and describe one of the key processes by which many of our fasters, you can see them connected to the back of this, are used. This is called Picture Framing.
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October 17, 2018
This is a unique quick-change application. We made quick change plates for an old manual hydraulic press. But, you know what? You can make good use of quick-change in this situation as well. Check this out!
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October 01, 2018
Today, I'm gonna talk about our EZEVise Ultimates, and you're probably already thinking, "dude he's got content on that already!" You're right. We do. However, we do not have a video describing all of the different features of this product, so I'm going to go through it with you.
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September 12, 2018
We created a little plastic modular fixture that we can provide to you as a demo kit. It has all the basic elements of a full-sized modular fixture in it. This gives you the ability to actually test the fixture out and quick-change something yourselves!
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August 08, 2018
Today we are going to talk about accessories and specifically the accessories for the hole that our workholding fasteners go into.
So, this thing in my hand, the invert-a-bolt fastener, screws into a plate. The big thread goes into a plate and the smaller thread comes up into the piece that is being held. When we access this thread up and down, we can create a quick-change scenario
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August 02, 2018
I've got a real simple thing to show you today but I feel like you're going to like it. We do have newer Vises, these are our old ones but, I wanted to show you that we have an addition to our vises now, we are going to add a dove tail to the front of this.
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July 31, 2018
Today, I am going to introduce you guys to a new workholding system. What it does is that it combines a legacy component, which is the T-slot itself, and our, patent pending, holding and locating products.
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