Internal broaching by Ohio Broach is a more cost-efficient option

The Ohio Broach team uses horizontal machines for traditional broaching.

The Ohio Broach & Machine Company has mastered many broaching techniques in its decades of success in this field. Its capabilities can offer most services a client may need, including internal broaching, also known as traditional broaching. This is a cost-efficient option of mass-producing custom or irregular internal forms. Internal broaching is an especially efficient way to make internal forms such as keyways, squares, hexes, splines, and many other shapes in the bores of mechanical components.

Wide range of materials

The company conducts traditional broaching in a wide range of materials, including brass, copper, alloy steel, stainless steel, or aluminum. In this method, Ohio Broach uses and sells horizontal internal broaching machines. Equipment with the HC model designation has close-grained, high-tensile, one-piece cast iron guide heads, and machines with the HF designation use constantly welded, thermally stress-relieved, fabricated steel guide heads. Designed and constructed to ensure the rigidity and stability necessary for precise tool tracking, these machines use hardened and ground alloy steel machine ways to guide their pull heads.

The team has equipped the pull heads with precision-ground wear pads that users can easily replace or adjust. The front portion of the pull head is designed to slide for vertical tool alignment with the standard two-inch, eight-pitch female thread for broach puller attachment. The quick return of the broach pull heads to the starting position is a major benefit of this horizontal broaching equipment.

Ohio Broach does more than make broaching equipment. The company also offers turnkey packages with products and services such as work-holding tools and broach cutting tools. Ohio Broach also encourages customers to trial-broach components at its ISO 9001-certified plant in Willoughby, OH and repeat the trial broaching at their own facilities. Tool sharpening is offered to maintain peak performance after the start of the internal-broaching process.

For almost every project, Ohio Broach has access to a complete spectrum of broaching machinery, including special equipment for exceptional applications. There is always a solution available, from complex tasks to machine sales and repairs or sharpening. For internal broaching and more, count on Ohio Broach.

For more information, contact Ohio Broach.

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