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Article: Cam drive allows quick, accurate 90-degree indexing.(Rapid Traverse: Metalworking Technology In Brief)
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- Modern Machine Shop
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Fifty to 70 percent of machined automotive components require only 90-degree indexing movements during milling and drilling operations, according to Patrick Yeko, sales manager for Pascal Engineering, Inc. (Elk Grove Village, Illinois). For these applications, repeatable workpiece indexing to 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock positions is more important than the ability to rotate to numerous angular positions.
These types of machining applications drove Pascal to develop its compact MDX indexing table. The MDX uses a roller gear cam design to index a workpiece 90 degrees in 0.5 second, in conjunction with an integral, three-piece Hirth coupling that acts as a fully ...
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