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Industrial equipment & controls
This plate is a sliding wear component in machinery. Geometrically it is simple: a flat plate carrying milled slots and counterbored fixing holes. What makes or…
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Industrial equipment & controls
This housing is the machined body that holds bearings, seals and a shaft in correct alignment within a fluid-handling assembly. It must hold those bores concentric…
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Aerospace & tooling
This drill jig carries a fixed hole pattern into an aerospace sub-assembly at a bench, with no machine tool involved. Hole position drives fastener fit and…
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Automation & robotics
This baseplate is the mounting foundation that grippers, tool changers and sensors bolt onto at the end of a robot arm. It is taken on and…
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Automation & robotics
A drive motor has to sit on the machine frame in one exact place, and a stiff couple between the motor and a fabricated frame is…
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Automation & robotics
A stepped mill-turn shaft for a rotating assembly: shoulders that seat bearings, threads gauged on assembly, grooves that retain neighbouring components and cross-holes drilled off the…
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Aerospace & tooling
A cast-plate fixture base whose gridded dowel and tapped-hole pattern is cut from one flat datum, so clamps, locating pins and inspection nests drop back into…
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Industrial equipment & controls
A pneumatic manifold machined from 6061-T6 aluminum: valves and fittings on the outside, a network of cross-drilled passages on the inside, sealed, leak tested and finished…
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Automation & robotics
A structural link machined from 7075-T6 aluminum: two bearing bores tied together by a lightweighted web, made for a robotic joint where moving mass and joint…
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Industrial equipment & controls
A two-part sealed enclosure: a hollow extruded body with an internal cavity and a removable lid that clamps onto a CNC-machined O-ring gland — built for…
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