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  • High Precision Bores and Finish Grinding - Northfield
    March 5, 2025

    High Precision Bores and Finish Grinding

    Working for an international OEM supplier of the world’s most accurate precision rifle barrels.  Brief Outer diameter clamping to grind bores in high precision bolt carriers for modern sport rifles.   Inner diameter clamping for finish grinding the outer diameter.  Challenge: ...

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  • Long Beach High School – Working Students - Northfield
    March 5, 2025

    Long Beach High School – Working Students

    Working students continue to visit Northfield as part of our continued commitment to supporting the community. This June we attended a luncheon to celebrate the hard work and development of the students that have come to work at the Northfield...

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  • Custom Collets – Air vs. Hydraulic - Northfield
    March 5, 2025

    Custom Collets – Air vs. Hydraulic

    Collaborating with the finest in machine tool productivity innovation.   Brief:  The task is tooling up a standard dual head rotary table to accommodate the bolt carrier. Challenge: The challenge of this job is to provide a work holding solution,...

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  • Finishing Output Gears - Northfield
    March 5, 2025

    Finishing Output Gears

    Our customer works mainly in the Automotive and Manufacturing industries. We want to share with you a custom precision solution for output gears we created for them. Northfield 650 Sliding Air Chuck - Custom Quick Change Jaws[/caption] I discussed this...

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  • Finding the Right Balance - Northfield
    March 5, 2025

    Finding the Right Balance

    Northfield & Balancing  We are the world’s premier manufacturer of ultra-precision balance work holding, with chucks weighing less than half of the competition. We are the only supplier recommended by major balance manufacturers.  Our mission, is to provide manufacturing companies...

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  • Lathe Finish Turning - Northfield
    March 5, 2025

    Lathe Finish Turning

    Our customer is an OEM manufacturer of welding equipment. Brief The work holding requirement is for a lathe. Our customer needs a chuck that expands to grip the inner diameter of welding shield caps so they can finish-turn its rough...

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  • Custom Diaphragm Chuck for milling precision gears - Northfield
    March 5, 2025

    Custom Diaphragm Chuck for milling precision gears

    Every week exciting new projects are heading out the door, such as this Custom Diaphragm Chuck for milling precision gears. Brief: The customers work piece is a small precision gear that requires milling on one face, timed to existing geometry. Challenge: The...

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  • Northfield Precision - How can we help? - Northfield
    March 5, 2025

    Northfield Precision - How can we help?

    5 Minutes with Charles Florio Northfield Sales & Darryl Celli Senior Applications Engineer How can we help? Charles Florio, part of the US based Northfield sales team, and Darryl Celli, one of Northfields Senior application engineers, share their insights about...

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