Shrink-fit toolholders have traditionally been used only on milling machines or turn-mills with a B-axis main spindle, offering advantages such as high tool clamping forces to enable more aggressive cuts. Now, the technology can be applied to live-tool lathes, realizing the same benefits in the form of shrink-fit ER collets from Haimer USA that work with the company's shrink-fit machines.
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