Chesterfield Tool

New Portable CMM

myadmin101 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:18:26 +0000

An innovative portable measurement solution has been added at Chesterfield Tool & Engineering.

Chesterfield Tool has purchased a FaroArm Edge Portable CMM. The FaroArm is a portable coordinate measuring machine (CMM) that allows manufacturers easy verification of product quality by performing 3D inspections, tool certifications, CAD comparison, dimensional analysis, reverse engineering, and more. The all-new FARO Edge is the most advanced, state-of-the-art FaroArm ever produced.

Data collected with the FaroArm can be downloaded into existing models or used to generate solid models. Now precise measurement can be taken from equipment and machinery in the field. Chesterfield Tool recently won a purchase order, the scope being to manufacture and assembly to fit into an existing test stand. Using the FaroArm, we were able to validate fore and aft assemblies’ locations so that our design dimensions would handshake with these other assemblies. Our client was pleased in knowing that hard number dimensions were available to validate their test stand set-up.

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New Precision Grinder

myadmin101 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:16:16 +0000

Last year, Chesterfield Tool & Engineering won a large, overseas project, making precision stamping dies. The design basis of the dies required gage like tolerancing, for interchangeability of the die components. To meet this need, Chesterfield Tool procured an ultra-precision grinder from the Industry leader Okamoto Corporation. The ACC-DX series of grinders is one of the most widely used grinders in existence. It is easy to operate and delivers consistent performance, accuracy and reliability unmatched by any grinder it their class.

The Okdamoto ACC-DX is a great compliment to Chesterfield Tool & Engineering’s grinding department. Chesterfield Tool has O.D. and I. D. grinding as well as Surface Grinding and Jig Grinding. Precision grind of shafts always require demagnetizing. Chesterfield Tool can demagnetize parts that can fit within a 13” x 16” window. We validate de-magnetism with a Gauss meter.

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New VF-11 Machining Center

myadmin101 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:14:57 +0000

Chesterfield Tool purchases Large Haas VF-11 Machining Center with 120” of travel.

Chesterfield Tool has purchased a large Haas Machining Center, Model VF-11 to complement their inventory of large milling machines. The Haas machine has 10’ of travel and this has been most useful on large projects over the last year.

The VF-11 is a 30 HP machine with a 24-place, side mount tool changer. Chesterfield Tool has been using this machine for large plate work, large 3D contouring and precision hole placement/jig borer type of work.

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Indiana shop thinks big, creates jobs

myadmin101 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:25:03 +0000

Many employees dream about being their own boss and setting their own hours. For Greg Julian, vice president of technical operations at Chesterfield Tool and Engineering Inc., and Rick Ray, president, the desire to spend more time with their families led them to follow that dream. The two worked together as toolmakers at a large job shop and wished to own and run an employee-friendly shop. They wanted to create an atmosphere that enabled employees to have more family time, such as getting time off to attend a child’s school play.

The toolmakers and their wives, Luanne Julian and Nichola Ray, purchased Chesterfield Tool in 1989. The company was established in 1960 as a small job shop in Chesterfield, Ind., but was later moved to Daleville, Ind., where it retained the Chesterfield name.

Chesterfield Tool specializes in designing and building custom machines and tooling, trepanning, honing, gundrilling and remanufacturing hydraulic cylinders. Its clientele varies from small machine shops to Fortune 500 companies and their overseas subsidiaries.

Yesenia Salcedo, senior editor of CTE, checked in with Greg Julian to see how the company manages to be profitable and create jobs.

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Gun Drilling

myadmin101 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:24:00 +0000

What is Gun Drilling?

Gun drilling is the deep hole drilling process that utilizes a long, thin cutting tool to produce holes in metal at high depth-to-diameter ratios. Gun drilling is effective in diameters from 1 – 50 [0.04 – 2.00 in]. A gun drill tool differs from a conventional twist drill by its unique head geometry; a standard gun drill has a single effective cutting edge that forms and removes chips,as it is hydraulically fed into a workpiece.

Please read the article in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine about Chesterfield Tool & Engineering, which shows our gun drilling machine:

https://www.ctemag.com/news-videos/articles/indiana-shop-thinks-big-creates-jobs

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