O/T hydraulics or manual clamps

[biss03]

we try to utilize hydraulic clamping as much as possible on our production machining fixtures. without bashing a hydraulics company, we are having many problems with their products with no real solutions being given.

 

my questions is: what is your choice for hydraulic company. we've used enerpac, hytec, and are looking at vectec. any info would be appreciated!

 

thanks,

josh

[robk]

quote:

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looking at vectec

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We have been using Vektek hydraulic clamps for about 6 years in here. Highly recommended

 

Rob

[Matthew]

I have one customer who I built fixtures for and they won't use anything but Vektek. However, they are a bit more expensive than Enerpac.

 

But, I have also used Enerpac with no problems.

 

Our first choice is Enerpac to keep costs down, unless it is specifically requested that we use Vektek.

[robk]

One more thing...

Do not go cheap with the fittings or the hoses. Usually those would be the first to go.

 

Rob

[crazy^millman]

biss I guess my next question would be have you talked to who you buy them from and showed them your set-ups that you have also the problems with the clamps and see if they can help you.

 

Good Luck

 

Crazy Millman

[CAM-mando]

Didnt have alot of experience with hydraulic clamping until about 2 1/2 years ago. We had fixtures built outside that used VEKTEK clamps and work supports.

 

We had no bad experiences with VEKTEK ... only problem I recall was the enerpak pump that was hooked up to them.

[Roger Peterson]

What types of problems are you having? As was mentioned by someone earlier in the thread fittings take a tremendous amount of stress. There are swivel fittings that will aleviate many issues.

[mario]

And magnet is it good or not ?

 

excuse my english

 

right now I look for Technomagnet system

 

Whatever idea or suggestion

 

 

http://www.tecnomagnete.it/

[biss03]

we use all parker fittings and hoses. we use 90% enerpac equipment and yes, we have actually had a person from enerpac(along with the sales guy from our distributor) in here. basically, it looks like he is going to replace the ones that are bad but this doesn't solve the problem of why they go bad. it is not the fittings causing the problems because the main problem is leaking oil from the component itself and the "guts" are working their way loose and coming out. this has actually become more of a problem in the last couple of years. before that we rarely had a problem with their equipment. i guess my reason for posting this thread was to get feedback on other users opinions of enerpac and vektek because we recently had a rep from vektek stop and drop of some catalogs. so, with all the enerpac problems we are thinking of trying vektek.

 

thanks for all the feedback and please keep them coming.

 

josh

 

[ 10-02-2003, 08:41 AM: Message edited by: biss03 ]