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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nINTEC is small; you can absolutely do the entire tradeshow in a day without it becoming a marathon. If you go to a show like EMO, which is the worlds biggest manufacturing tradeshow, you must realistically plan at least two days \u2013 Or have a very well laid out plan which booths you visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you can, go via public transport – it\u2019s exhausting enough, no need to add driving yourself as added stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You are on your feet walking all day\u2013 Wear comfortable shoes. Bring something to drink. Tradeshow catering is absurdly expensive. Or you get some free snacks\/drinks at the tradeshow booths. I\u2019ll give a brief rundown of the vendors I visited\/talked to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Simtek<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.simtek.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Simtek had a rather interesting system for small ID boring, with a carbide boring bar, that\u2019s held in a holder designed like a collet chuck \u2013 With the boring bar having a slot ground along its length to keep the rotational orientation fixed. The idea is to have the stickout adjustable for the machining task on hand, without stocking a large amount of solid carbide boring tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A similar solution is available for their interchangeable head system, but here the rotation is locked by the elliptical shape of the tool shank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.simtek.com\/en_DE\/length-variable-tooling-solutions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This gives me ideas for homebrew length adjustable boring bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arnold Werkzeugmaschinen<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arnold Werkzeugmaschinen \u2013 From whom I have a rebuilt Weiler Primus and a not rebuilt Deckel FP1 – had a very nice Weiler Praktikant and a late Deckel FP1 Active in their Distinct White\/Grey Paint Scheme on Display, fully rebuilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.arnold-werkzeugmaschinen.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mapal<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/mapal.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mapal – I had known them for Reamers and special tooling for large scale production \u2013 Had some interesting little things that I don\u2019t want to gloss over \u2013 HSK flanges to build your own HSK spindles or retrofit existing spindles to accept HSK tooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n G\u00fchring offers a similar range of parts, but its good to have options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/webshop.guehring.de\/4586<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n These Countersinks\/Counterbores have a depth stop with a collar and can be retrofitted with dust extraction. Their main use is in the aviation industry, where precise depth control for countersinks is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. Britsch<\/p>\n\n\n\n F. Britsch had a huge range of collets and toolholders on display, turning tools for swiss machines and small floating reamer holders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/f-britsch.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Relevant for me, they have \u201cKopfspannzangen\u201d \u2013 Large head diameter and soft collets for my Weiler Primus, which uses 358E \/ W23 collets. Good to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Effgen <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the booth of Effgen I saw interesting core drills \u2013 Tubes with a head out of metal bond diamond. Very similar to what a contractor would use to drill into a brick wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/effgen.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/effgen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/05-GlassCeramic_Glasaeramik-2014.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n But these are made to drill things like Zerodur, a glass-ceramic in a CNC mill \u2013 With some absurd diameter\/depth ratios. They had an example with a 6mm core drill, going about 200mm deep at the booth and the application engineer I talked to mentioned that they can go substantially deeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interesting, not an everyday tool and it requires high pressure through spindle coolant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weiler \/ Kunzmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lathes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.weiler.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Milling machines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.kunzmann-fraesmaschinen.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Weiler \/ Kunzmann had a range of manual and CNC lathes\/toolroom mills on show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weiler Primus \u2013 A very different machine than the vintage Primus I own. Its almost double the weight and size now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boka<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.bokatools.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Boka had this odd-looking vertical slotter shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It looks like the X\/Y table and column of a RF45 benchtop mill with a Bridgeport-style slotting head attached to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fehlmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.fehlmann.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I always enjoy seeing manual equipment \u2013 Fehlmann still has a manual mill\/drill in their lineup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Very nice machines, quick change spindle tooling, they are available completely manual or with a point-point NC control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my opinion the form factor of the machine with the drawer cabinet integrated in the stand and the tool storage carousel on the left makes it a great piece of support equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nine9<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nine9 had their range of chamfer, engraving and spotting tools shown<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/nine9cuttingtools.site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n With the smallest, an interchangeable head chamfer mill with a 5mm in diameter head or an inserted chamfer mill with tiny 4mm square inserts and 12mm overall diameter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interchangeable head chamfer mill:<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/nine9cuttingtools.site\/en\/nine9-main-catalogue\/#nine9_main_catalouge_v_2025-2026_eng_version\/92\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Inserted chamfer mill:<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/nine9cuttingtools.site\/en\/nine9-main-catalogue\/#nine9_main_catalouge_v_2025-2026_eng_version\/88\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diatest<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diatest has interesting bore measuring solutions, like the BMD plug gage which measures the bore diameter without any influence from the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.diatest.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.diatest.com\/en\/products\/solutions-for-gauging\/measurement-of-diameter-and-length\/bmd-plug-gauge-diatest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Another item Diatest has in their lineup is a bench micrometer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Personally, I stay away from the booths for general 3\/5 axis CNC mills or lathes \u2013 I am not in the business of buying one and at some point, it gets very repetitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But there\u2019s always outliers of course \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n Willemin Macodel<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/willemin-macodel.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Willemin is rather novel with their bar feed mill-turn machines, that have a vise for second side machining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The inside of the machine \u2013 The vertical mill spindle can be tilted and also hold turning tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The spindle on the left acts as a lathe spindle but also an indexing spindle for 4\/5 axis machining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Above the grey hose with the right-angle connector in the lower right of the picture the flip up vise can be seen, that is used for backside machining. Parts that have been turned\/milled in the main spindle can be grabbed with the vise flipped up, the part can be cut off with a slitting saw or an endmill and then finished in the vise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you go to a tradeshow, even as a hobbyist \u2013 Don\u2019t hesitate to talk to the people at the booths. Most of them will happily talk to you and show you around, even if you are not in the business of buying a 5 Axis mill for half a million Euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I went to a tradeshow \u2013 I like to do that from time to time to see what\u2019s out there and satisfy my desire to see and learn about things I am not familiar with \u2013 Going to a tradeshow is not that expensive, you will usually find a free ticket from tooling suppliers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtwr.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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