Crawley Machine Co., LLC

What role does manganese play as an ingredient in commercial steels? Manganese contributes to the strength and hardness of steel, but it also helps to improve the ‘hardenability’ of steel by decreasing the cooling rate and enhancing the machinability of steel by increasing its malleability.

One of the benefits of a fiber laser is reliability. These lasers are very stable even at high temperatures and resist vibration very well. They also consistently provide more power thus making for cleaner and faster cuts.

With harder plastics like acrylic, a plastic-cutting laser machine can create more intricate shapes and designs with very little resistance. This results in minimal wear and tear on both the machine and the material being used.

If tooling is what you need, CNC grinding is accomplished through a seven-axis machine to create taps, drills, reamers, and other items out of any material. It dominates in the machining of medical tools and the machining of tools to make custom parts.

In the shaft alignment process, our technicians will put coupled shafts on the same center line, giving them a common rotational axis. This will result in greatly reduced vibration levels and better overall operation of your machine.

The laser beam has no inherent temperature, the heat is caused by the laser beam hitting a surface and changing from light energy into heat. The beam of light emitted is so intense that it can cut through the densest materials, including metal, leather, marble, ceramics, and more.

High-speed machining of heat resistant super alloys and other hard metals can be best accomplished using whisker reinforced ceramic inserts. They create a sharper insert edge which produces better surface finishes because of reduced tool pressure.

To determine the pitch diameter for spur gears used in parallel shaft gears, measure the center-to-center distance and the number of teeth.

If you want to get a machine custom chrome plated, it's important to go to people who know what they're doing. That's because the appearance and durability of the chrome plating is almost entirely based on proper preparation by skilled experts.

Powder coating is used in over 10 percent of all industrial and commercial applications worldwide. In fact, powder coating is the fastest growing finishing technology in the US today, mostly used to create a protective and/or decorative finish to metal materials and products.

The three main types of lasers used in laser cutting are the CO2 laser, neodymium (Nd) laser, and neodymium yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Nd-YAG) laser.

Laser machining offers significant advantages. Laser cuts are cleaner and more precise, for example, producing a burr-free surface that requires less finishing, speeds production, and reduces manufacturing costs.