Buckinghamshire-based
Thame Workholding, a leading supplier of standard and specialist work-holding equipment for over 75 years, will be highlighting Quadro-vac — a new vacuum clamping system for special contoured workpieces that accommodates five-side machining by ‘creating an accurate clamping surface of the workpiece’ at
MACH 2022 (Hall 20, Stand 646). The show is taking place from 4-8 April at the NEC, Birmingham.
It can be used for bevels, contours, and radii on both upper and lower surfaces — without needing to reposition the workpiece. Moreover, with material-friendly (PVC) contact faces, this modular system is expandable and available in two sizes; it can also be used both horizontally and vertically.
Meanwhile, SolidBolt is a new ‘zero-point philosophy’ with a ‘unique clamping system’ designed to make zero-point techniques even easier and more versatile, allowing multi-position clamping to be more cost-effective on large machine tables.
Also on display will be MultiRad and MultiRise units, which have been developed and produced by Thame Workholding. MultiRad will enhance three- and four-axis capability, having been designed to allow five-sided machining on a three-axis machine tool and to accommodate prototyping and small-batch work where fourth- and fifth-axis machine tools are not financially viable.
Meanwhile, MultiRise units can enhance three-, four- and five-axis working, as the 52mm stud pattern fits SolidPoint from HWR as well as units from Lang, Schunk, Roemheld, Gerardi and others. In fact, MultiRise can be used with any 52mm centre stud pattern vices, chucks and fixtures.
The line-up of HWR equipment will be completed with SolidLine, which is one of the lowest zero-point systems on the market (just 27mm) and provides ‘exceptional positional accuracy with precise and repeatable multi-functional mounting of different fixtures on machine tables, indexers, cubes, rotary tables and mill-turn machine tools’.