Blind Hole Drilling and Tapping

We have offered drilling and tapping of holes for years, but we now offer drilling and tapping of blind holes.  We can put as many drills and thread milling setups on a single cross beam as you would like, and then cut the profile out with the waterjet.  We also have an excellent method of auto-lubrication of the drilling and tapping.

WARDJet – we keep moving forward and having fun while we do!

http://www.wardjet.com/video-blind-hole-tapping.asp

Rich

WARD PRO Production

We are thrilled as are our customers with the WARD PRO production.  The changes we made from the WARD 1 which include integrated dust and steam collector, smaller overall size to fit 2 units side by side in a standard container for shipping overseas along with CE certification has all worked for the good. 

Rich

Steel Fabrication Plate

We had some fun last week installing a 20 foot x 16 foot steel pad that is level to 0.010”.  We used our FARO TRACKER to check the installation levels – a bit extreme use of such a tool.  The idea is we looked for months for large platens with no success.  So we selected a portion of our shop floor, surveyed and shimmed it so when we laid two 8’ x 20’ sheets into the grout surrounding the shims, we would have a good welding platform for our fabrication.  We are now doing all fabrication in house.

Rich

CNC Milling

May 2010 be a wonderful year for us all.  I am excited and looking forward to the next 12 months as WARDJet get an opportunity to expand and implement our technology developed over the years. 

We are off to a great start to 2010 with new orders over the Christmas - New Year’s period.  We also figured out how to map compensation tables into our large CNC milling machine using our metrology equipment.  This is great as our waterjets will be even more mechanically excellent when it comes to positional and repeatability tolerances.  As a result, mapping compensation built into our controllers, although always there, becomes less critical and all around our machines reach even tighter tolerances.

Rich