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    Mounting Irregular shaped items on the lathe

    Via the 'grapevine' I heard that some attendees of the San Jose Symposium were discussing how difficult it is to mount irregular shaped items on the lathe, in particular using vacuum. If this of interest to you, see my article on Compliant Vacuum Chucking Systems in the current issue of the...
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    Vacuum Chucks

    I've posted quite a bit of info on vacuum chucks on the forum in addition to my article in the Feb 2011 issue of the AW. This note is to give you notice that the promised article on the 'Compliant Vacuum Chucking System' is currently scheduled or the June 2012 issue of the AW. Due to space...
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    Update on Vacuum Chucking Systems

    When I wrote the article on vacuum chucking systems for the Feb '11 issue of the AW, it generated a lot of discussion. Since then I have continued to investigate and work with vacuum chucking systems to solve serveral questions that have come up. For example: "I don't worry about leaks in my...
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