Brown truck delivered some goodies today!

[Eric@HorsepowerInc.]

Very nice, now were ordering 4 more to speed up production.

[?Mark]

Love those. I hope you also got the press, lol

[Newbeeee™]

Mark - we have 4 of them and no press but only use them for ally.

Never had a prob but have you ever had a part pull out??

Just wondering.

[Joe788]

Bitchin. How much did that set you back?

[Mr. M]

Those things are quite smooth as well! The ones I've used you could spin with your fingertips.

[Eric@HorsepowerInc.]

The vise is exceptionally smooth, yes moves by your finger tips. We have not got the press yet, we work mainly with Alum. here, so time will tell. Those guys are extremely good to work with, they sent these out with a 2 week trial period. The platters are around 1k and the vises 1500, but this is the largest vise they make. The quality seems very good, 2 turns locks/unlock parts/vises etc. so this should speed up production dramatically. Only time will tell, and we've got thousands of parts to run, so we will see how they hold up.

[GIZMO 21]

I ordered one based on info i read here.now we have 5 and 1 of the small ones.i think its like 2" wide.

We are very happy with them.the lang dealer sends them out on trial because their confident in the

Product.

[Newbeeee™]

Here's one of our poor man hori's

[Eric@HorsepowerInc.]

Just a question for the guys using these, if your running them on your 5ax machines what did you do about lining up the hold down to the T-Slots? 4 of the units will be going on our Haas's and only 2 of the 6 holes line up, for our Doosan's, we have to make an adapter, so no issue there. Did you only use 2 Bolts( that scares me), or did you add holes in the Lang unit that align with the T-slots? The only thing that stinks is you can't get equal spacing on the holes, and can only add 2 more.

[tozmaster]

I have a question for everyone using and Buying these.

There is a company In San Diego That makes a very similar unit. (5 Axis Machine)

I use their product/s and they work very well for me and they are more reasonably priced.

Question is, are these worth the extra money?

[Eric@HorsepowerInc.]

Tozmaster they look to be an exact copy of the lang, whomever had it first. We are not so much using the vise but the quick change feature for parts/fixtures to speed up the loading process. I believe Lang and Jergens are the only 2 that make a quick change base like this. I believe you were referring to 5th axis products? They do look nice, but not what we needed. I do really like 1 thing with those, Made in the USA!

[tozmaster]

Thanks for the Reply Eric, Makes sense now with the quick change feature I wasn't aware of.

The 5 axis Products we have are great and work very well for us, but then a 10 part run is a high quantity for us.

And for Made in The USA another reason I went with the 5 axis products.

By the way they are really good people there as well if you need anything in the Future.

[GIZMO 21]

On the nikken there is a precise bore on it.so the base that i made has a boss the size of the nikken bore minus a few tenths

And i have 4 3/8-16 bolts hoding it down to the platter.could'nt go with the quick change cause we're limited on machine z axis travel.

But this set up works out great for us.we're mainly a prototype shop.our quantities are 10 parts the most.the parts that i make on this machine range from 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 to 5.0 x 5.0 x 5.0

[Mic6]

LUCKY!

[?Mark]

Mark - we have 4 of them and no press but only use them for ally.

Never had a prob but have you ever had a part pull out??

Just wondering.

 

It's 90% aluminium for us as well. We always use press. Our part are fairly big. 6*12*10 or bigger. Never had a part pull out.

Have several dozens of plates and vises setup on our 800mm 5-axis.

I pushed for it a couple of years back and couldn't be hapier with the results.

[?Mark]

[CADCAM3D5AXIS]

Nice Tooling !!

[Sticky]

What are you guys doing for second ops? The Lang softjaws or?

[?Mark]

For my work it's mostly fairly complicated fixturing. Most of those fixtures will locate on quick change lang plates for 4th axis work to finish the part.

Never use soft jaws on those vises because it'll not work for me, but don't see why not for the right application.

BTW, those jaws flip both ways and can accommodate large parts.

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

Couldn't live without my Lang workholding. We have the stamping unit also. Kick xxxx!

[cunder]

Have one Lange vise here. Any one try it with cast iron? I am afraid the cast will be too brittle and will break out where the teeth grip.