SUPER PRECISION PARTS

This page is provided to give descriptive a summary of the terms, equipment and materials employed in the manufacture of super precision parts.

For photographs and more information about the turned parts manufactured by CJ Tools please see our Super Precision Parts page.

Super Precision Parts can be produced on a variety of machines and are components or parts which are manufactured with almost impossible tolerances.

They are produced on specially adapted machine tools with very high quality tooling and fixturing, using special machining techniques and spindle speeds of up to 160,000 rpm. The whole process is temperature controlled.

Super Precision Parts can be produced from:

• Sawn block or billet in various materials:
  
  
  • Hot or Cold Rolled Steels/Stainless/Heat resisting
  • Non-ferrous metals/brass/Copper/AliBronze/Aluminium
  • Ground Stock
  • Super Precision
  • Round, Hexagonal or Square sections
  • Special Sections
• Castings or Forgings in any materials pre-machined for location or raw requiring milling or holding fixtures
• Pultrusions and extrusions in aluminium and plastics and composites
• Sub assemblies requiring machining as an assembly
• Parts initially produced on a range of regular machines ready for follow up:
  
  
  • Grinding
  • Honing
  • Surface
  • Lapping
  • Polishing
• Depending on the economics of:
  
  
  • Quantity (batch size)
  • Setting time
  • Programming time
  • Fixturing costs
  • Gauging and inspection requirements

CJ Tools provides a manufacturing service using the latest generation of machine tools:

• Fast, single set up programming, giving reduced lead-time
• Multi-axis programming to handle even the most detailed of components
• Full rotary milling capability
• Latest generation programming tools able to deliver the specialist toolpaths required for the complex requirements of today
• Prototype and/or small production runs

Customer consultancy involving design for production, turnkey project engineering and the application of advanced manufacturing techniques is part of the service provided by CJ Tools.