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| I use the machines in this room to make tooling and whenever a higher degree of precision is required on a project. There are few shops that have made this type of investment to ensure that a customer's order is not held up waiting for tooling or jigs from a local machine shop. Some smaller tools can be made in as little as 10 minutes. I added this room in the spring of 2002. |
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Stock Rack Every project begins as long section of metal stock is removed from the stock rack and cut to length. |
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Doall Bandsaw This saw is an invaluable addition to my shop. I use it for something on almost every project, saving me countless hours over other methods. I have almost every accessory for this saw including the Doall supply cabinet to hold all of the other accessories. |
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Wilton Belt Sander From chamfering the ends of bars after they have been cut to grinding custom drifts, punches and other assorted tooling; this machine does it all. It has electronically variable speed, assorted contact wheels, and a dust collection system. |
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Bridgeport Vertical Milling Machine I use this mill to make most of my rectilinear shaped tooling. It is also a drill press for precision hole location. It has a variable speed head, power feed on the table, and a digital readout. I also have rotary tables, an indexing head, and a sine table to use with it. |
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Hardinge Horizontal Milling Machine This cute little mill is used primarily as a horizontal boring mill to face bars to length, drill holes in the ends of bars, and to cut tenons. |
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Clausing Tool Room Lathe This high precision variable speed metal lathe is used to make any tooling or masters that are round. It has an Aloris indexable tool post with a good selection of carbide tooling. |
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Heat Treating Furnace When tools need to be hardened after they are made so they will last longer I use this heat treating furnace. This furnace will go up to 1875 degrees Fahrenheit. I recently installed a digital controller on it for more precise heat control. To harden steel it is heated up till the crystal structure is austenitic (different steels are different temperatures) and then quenched in air, oil, water, or brine to harden it. While an integral part of my tool room, this furnace is located in the forge. |
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Parker Majestic Surface Grinder When the steel is hard or the part requires super precision tolerances I use this surface grinder to make the part. This machine is great for sharpening punches used in forging too. |
| Other tooling in this room includes: Assorted measuring instruments Atlas Arbor Press Atlas Drill Press Baldor Polishing Lathe/Buffer with dust collector Crystal Lakes Cylindrical Grinder Doall Gage Block Set Starret Lab Grade Surface Plate Wilson Hardness Tester |
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Nigel Tudor, Metalsmith 1061 Sugar Run Road Avella, Pennsylvania 15312 |
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