Our customer is an OEM manufacturer of welding equipment. Brief The work holding requirement is for a lathe. Our customer needs a chuck that expands to grip the inner diameter of welding shield caps so they can finish-turn its rough...
Every week exciting new projects are heading out the door, such as this Custom Diaphragm Chuck for milling precision gears. Brief: The customers work piece is a small precision gear that requires milling on one face, timed to existing geometry. Challenge: The...
5 Minutes with Charles Florio Northfield Sales & Darryl Celli Senior Applications Engineer How can we help? Charles Florio, part of the US based Northfield sales team, and Darryl Celli, one of Northfields Senior application engineers, share their insights about...
Introducing the series of pneumatic actuated pitch-line gear chucks. Helical Gear Chuck[/caption] Spur Gear Chuck[/caption] How can we help you? These two chucks are 7-inch diaphragm chucks. For multiple gear sizes, chucks can be provided with interchangeable cages...
Our recent product introduction, the Northfield Pressure-Lok TM Chucking System is an air chucking system that works without the air tubes and hoses. Video Below ⬇. Northfield Pressure Lok Chuck[/caption] The Pressure-LokTM air chuck once charged with air pressure can...
Recently at Northfield we produced a custom internal grip collet chuck for balancing drive shafts. The collet on this chuck is ground to grip the pitch diameter of splined C.V. joints of a driveshaft assembly. The 'cone' has multiple stop...
Brief & Challenge: Our customer manufactures delicate ceramic rings. They needed a way to carefully hold them on the outer diameter so they could grind the inner diameter. In order to protect the parts, they requested the chuck had no metal...
Custom clamping jaws, developed for a vertical machining environment. A Northfield 650 air chuck has been adapted to work with custom jaws. The 'pie' shaped top jaws provide a full wrap clamping around the work piece. This project also includes...
Northfield 3-jaw, 5” Diaphragm Chuck (DPH-500) with custom plastic top tooling[/caption] Customer Brief Our customer is a heavy duty fuel pump and injector systems manufacturer. They requested a method to accurately grip their small (.098” OD) fuel injector plungers without marking...
