‘Captive Screw’

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Start with the news release Taegutec releases range of face-milling cutters from Taegutec, which we summarised at the time by saying "Taegutec has released the Chaseplusquad range of face-milling cutters for heavy machining applications with a depth of cut up to 8.8mm.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Bearing gantry system uses Renishaw encoder from Renishaw: "Steinmeyer-FMD's multi-axis air bearing gantry system is achieving speed and accuracy with the help of Renishaw's Tonic optical incremental encoder.".
 
In March 2010, we covered the news from Floyd Automatic Tooling - take a look at Floyd to present tooling for sliding-head machines which says: "On stand 5281 at Mach 2010, Floyd Automatic Tooling will be demonstrating its ability to supply a wide and specialised range of tooling to users of sliding-head turning centres. ".
 
Take a look also at the news release from AIM Drive Technology, AIM offers four types of screw jack, as well as Torque arms eliminate screw-fastening errors from Mountz, and Product bulletin profiles fasteners for PC boards from Penn Engineering.
 

Latest stories...
Dalsa develops GigE Vision-compliant cameras (March 2010)

Dalsa has introduced the Genie M1280 and C1280 GigE cameras, which are available from Adept Electronic Solutions.

Precision locking bushes improve productivity (March 2010)

A manufacturer of PET blow-moulding machines is using special locking bushes from ETP on feed mechanisms.

Panel fasteners conform to machinery directive (March 2010)

PEM panel fasteners designed specifically for tool-only access applications provide fixed screw solutions for a new EC machinery directive that imposes strict safety requirements for machine guarding.

Flexible 1/8 DIN digital-process indicator (March 2010)

The IDL-IL-P from Lee-Dickens is a low cost, highly flexible and easy to use 1/8 DIN scalable panel-mounting digital-process indicator.

Linear actuator enables full programmability (March 2010)

Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions has introduced the Haydon RoHS-compliant Idea non-captive programmable linear actuator.

Tyco offers jumper assembly for LED lights (March 2010)

Tyco Electronics has introduced a board-to-board screw-down jumper assembly for use in LED lighting strips, lighting controls and channel lettering.

Lee-Dickens releases ID56 and ID8 indicators (March 2010)

The ID56 and ID8 from Lee-Dickens are panel-mounting digital-process indicators with high efficiency 31/2-digit red LED displays.

Screw compressor powers CHRA balancing machine (March 2010)

Melett has selected the quiet and compact Boge CL 15 screw compressor to power its centre housing rotating assembly (CHRA) balancing machine.

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