Short Run Customized Machined Components
 Turning
Trace-a-Matic has over 30 manual and CNC lathes covering the gamut
of sizes from small CNC chuckers and CNC slant-turns to our large
CNC horizontal lathes and CNC VTLs.
Our customized machined components are as diverse as shafts, rollers,
bearings, turbine parts pistons, pins, hydraulic cylinders and
the like.
The materials we are machining range from alloy sheets, ductile
and gray iron to 300 and 400 grade stainless sheets as well as
exotic materials such as 6-2-4-2 titanium, 6-2-4-6 titanium, Inconel
718, and Waspalloy.
Our largest CNC horizontal lathe has a 34” swing arm 156” between
centers. Our largest vertical lathe has a 84” swing and has
a 60” turning height.
 CNC
Milling
Short run machining in our milling and drilling plant ranges from
small CNC vertical milling machines to large CNC horizontal machining
centers that have a 20-foot work envelope.
A vast majority of our horizontal and vertical CNC machining centers
have CNC rotary tables, adding a 4th Axis. Some rotary tables,
including one of our largest CNC horizontals, is accurate to 360,000
positions on a circle. Some of our machining centers also have
a quill which adds a 5th Axis for reaching the center of the table.
Another way a 5th Axis can be added is with directional tooling.
All of our CNC machining centers are networked and have Direct
Numerical Control. Programmers automatically downside programs
to each machining center. Likewise, the machinist will upload back
to the main file server once a job is complete.
We machine a wide variety of materials including castings, forgings,
plate, barstock, tubing, and weldments.
Some of the components we machine include booms, levers, frames,
gearboxes, connecting rods, hydraulic cylinders, printing press
cylinders, large wheel assemblies and other large machining components.
 Cylindrical
Grinding
Trace-A-Matic’s cylindrical grinding capacity closely mirrors
our CNC Turning capabilities when it comes to customized machined components. Here again, our capabilities stretch
from smaller parts run on one of two CNC grinders to a maximum
24” swing x 160” between centers running on our manual
grinders.
Some of the components we grind include printing press rollers,
linkage pins, hydraulic cylinders, piston struts, and other components.
Many of our grinding tolerances include .0005” diameters
and runouts.
Another feature we offer on many of our manual and CNC grinders
is automatic wheel balancing, creating smoother surface finishes.
Also, on all our CNC grinders we have marposs or control gauging
which interfaces with the CNC controls to make offset adjustments
for grinding wheel wear and thermal compensation.
In terms of gauging, all of our profilometers as well as snap
gauges are of course calibrated. With our profilometers, we also
have the capability not only to measure Rms, Ra, Rz, bearing ratio
and other surface finish requirements.
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