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vacuum holding

Two Walker chucks are shown in position on a Charmilles RoboForm

vacumag plates and vacuum chucks
Designed for Vacuum Workholding of Non-Ferrous Workpieces

Vacumag Plates allow magnetic workholding when used with a magnetic chuck. You can also hold the workpiece with vacuum only ... without changing chucks

features:

  • No need to change chucks every time you work on a ferrous or noon-ferrous workpiece
  • Minimize set-up and redressing time
  • Flexibility of vacuum holding to magnetic holding ... fast!
  • Can be used on virtually any magnetic chuck, permanent or electromagnetic provided the poles run parallel to those on VACUMAG

    • Sample set up shown at below. This also demonstrates that simple steel locating fixtures are also held firmly in place by chuck magnetism working through the thin masking sheet. Steel locating blocks serve two purposes.

    Two Walker chucks are shown in position on a Charmilles RoboForm

    First, they act as locating fixtures to accurately position parts for repeat operations. Secondly, they provide additional magnetic holding against machining pressure.

  • Available in the same wide range of sizes as Walker Ceramax® Chucks

The Vacumag set-up process is easy as 1, 2, 3!

  1. Cut out hole in a thin metal sheet masking plate (28 gauge recommended) which coincides with, but is slightly small than the size and shape of the workpiece.
  2. Mount Vacumag on your magnetic chuck, then place the masking sheet on the top plate with workpiece covering the hole already punched.
  3. Turn on the magnetic chuck to hold down masking sheet and switch on vacuum pump to hold workpiece securely down.