A ball lock pin's balls retract for installation and return to their original position to hold the pin in place. Axis configuration can affect how workholding interacts with machine movement, cutting tool access, and clearance during cutting.ДЄ self-locking quick-release pin that uses a button and internal spring to control one or more balls at the end of the pin. The number and location of all of the axes on a multi-axis machine. Adhesives are sometimes used as workholding for non-metallic, delicate, and irregularly shaped workpieces. Adapters add support or clearance to provide better access for the cutting tool.ДЄ non-metallic substance used to bond two or more materials together. As you can see, we can stop it against this edge or we could have bored a hole in the bottom of this part for location.A device that is used in combination with other multi-axis workholders.

You can watch the video in which this part was being machined, but I think you will be impressed with the vise. I just wanted to go through some of the features of this Flex vise, load this part up on there. What IвЂ™m going to do now is that we are going to marry this video up with one in which this part was being machined. The reason we have those locations is so that the vise can be used on both sides, that is what makes this unique. We also have an end stop and these end stops can be used in one of four locations. It also has multiple location possibilities where you use the Xzertzв„ў Retractable Locating Dowel Pin the retractable dowel pins they come in and out, so you can use a hole or a slot to locate here. This is reversible, so we made it, so we can take it out and reverse it if you wanted to. You can see that the pusher here has a gripper on the back which allows it to be used in tandem with other dovetail vises, we can then drive them from both sides and it can be used to hold parts, both as a straight vise or as a dovetail vise. Take-Up HolesДЄs you can see, it has the take-up holes for the invert-a-bolt fasteners and it can be used in one of our modular fixtures and can be directly connected to the fixture without any bolts or clamps. The fact that it can be used not just as a dovetail vise but as a straight vise makes it an important addition to the products that are out there in the world. There are some features about it that make it unique and patent pending.

So, what we did was that we developed a vise that grips more material but creates a much more stable environment for you to use and what we found in our own use of this Flex vise is that it is very robust and a very good overall vise to use. Now, at the time, we didnвЂ™t have one, but, they mentioned that it was not very stable, and I thought to myself that we can do better. I was walking through a customerвЂ™s plant, a large aerospace company, and they pointed over to where they were running a competitorвЂ™s dove tail vise. I remember how I came to the point I wanted to develop this in the first place. ItвЂ™s not very heavy but it can do a lot of good work for you because it is a rugged device. We have talked about this Flex vise a lot now, but I want to bring it up again because our guys love it.

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