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Manufacture / Design / Reclamation of Spindle Components

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Drive Dogs

Most of our drive dogs are in stock, however one of our other forte’s is designing and manufacturing them to your specification.  Please contact us for current stock or your requirements for made to sample.

Standard drive dogs

We hold most standard drive dogs in stock

Made to sample

We also make drive dogs to sample and would be happy to discuss dimensions and requirements with you. See below for some of our recent commissions.

Spacers

NN bearing spacers can be produced from sample, allowing 0.025″ extra for adjustment on assembly.

     

Long bearing spacer can be ground as a matched pair.

Lock Nuts

Please see the gallery of our work undertaken with manufacturing / designing and reclamation of lock nuts

Shrink nut re-designed and manufactured to give greater interference.

Front Caps

Front caps can be manufactured from sample or design and drawn to a customer’s requirement.

Coolant Jackets

Aluminium coolant jackets manufactured to your specific sample. See below for some of our work that we have undertaken.

Drive coupling repairs

Replacements of broken drive coupling

Drive tangs hard face welded and reproduced

Through coolant spindle plungers

Broken nylon plunges drawn and manufactured out of phosphor bronze

Tooling

HSK32 to ER32 Adaptor

Modification of components

Spindle conversion from solid bearings to angular contact

Draw bar conversion from auto to manual tool change

Repair to hydrostatic bearings

Cast iron hydrostatic bearing has been bush with phosphor bronze bush and oil scallops have been reproduced.

White metal bearing pads have been re-coated and fine bore to correct diameter.

     

Test Fixtures

Test bed to run spindle assembly.