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Article: Crossing the toolholder finish line in 34 minutes: "rust never sleeps," so putting a corrosion-resistant coating on toolholders using an in-house process was a requirement that Command Tooling Systems had to meet.(COATINGS/FINISHING/DEBURRING/CLEANING)
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- Modern Applications News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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There are fads within the machine tool community just as in the rest of life. No, skirt length or necktie width aren't factors, but preferences have swung between coated and uncoated toolholders. Command Tooling Systems, Ramsey, MN, found a way to cope with both fads without being stuck with the equivalent of a Nehru jacket.
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More than a third of Command's toolholder customers require black-oxide finishing on their toolholders. While Command had a satisfactory history with traditional hot oxide coating from outside vendors, it was reluctant to bring what it perceived to be a toxic chemical process in-house considering customer favor ...