b'Productive TimesRego-Fix ToolEddie Casanueva prepares to place a tool into a holder with the powRgrip toolholding collet system.With the PG system, he said theholders. In addition to collet chucks, OIL MIST & SMOKEshop can achieve a cutting speed ofthe shop has hydraulic holders and IN YOUR SHOP? about 15.24 m/min. (600 ipm) and amilling chucks. They typically hold radial DOC of 3.81 mm (0.15") whentools larger than 25.4 mm (1") in roughing with a 15.88 mm (0.63")diameter. He acknowledged that endmill on the DMG Mori machine. other types of holders are suitable www.mistcollectors.com Those are removal rates I couldntfor some shop applications.Tel: 1-800-645-4174even obtain before I bought theThere are specific areas where Rego-Fix system, Eddie said. I use the Rego-Fix system, Eddie Low-Cost, Highly Efficient Mist and Smoke He said the shop started withsaid. I can get away with standard Collectors Designed Specifically for the about a dozen PG holders andcollet chucks on most of it. It helps Metalworking Industry now has about 50, which are HSKme with the life span of the PG holders.He said he also benefits from PG holders for four-axis rotary milling work. In these instances, the small, slimmer nose profiles of his PG 25 and PG 15 holders allow him to ac-cess tough-to-reach part areas and avoid hitting workholders.You buy these extended holders or slim holders, Eddie said, and then you have the option of a dif-ferent size collet for that holder. So it gives you the flexibility of running a variety of collets with that one holder.CTE40DECEMBER 2020 ProTimes.indd 40 11/15/20 10:08 AM'