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If your work demands accuracy or you are looking to give your 5-axis capabilities a boost, hydraulic chucks are worth considering.

When using a mechanical milling chuck that implements a needle bearing cage the correct clamping position will vary.

Overall gripping strength increases as you increase the size of your tool holders (when looking at the same type of holder).

Runout can be fickle, but finding a solution for it can pay significant dividends. How a little wobble can really increase your costs.

Cheater bars are appropriately named, especially when it comes to tightening tool holders. We see the common pipes that are often added to the end of wrenches to achieve more torque in customers’ shops all the time. And while these makeshift wrenches may make tightening or loosening holders easier, the damage they can cause is often overlooked.

Here are a few tool and part holding considerations for getting the most out of a mill-turn machine.

Micromachining, cutting where the volume of chips produced with each tool path is very small, is not a high-speed operation in relation to chip load per tooth. Rather, it involves a high spindle speed due to cutter diameter. The part may be physically larger, but details of the part require ultra-small profiles achieved only by micromachining. In other words, micromachining is not limited in scope to only miniature parts.