Ohio Broach shapes possibilities beyond limits: Hexes, squares, teeth mastered with precision

A few of the shapes Ohio Broach can form.

Customers get an unmatched range of broaching services from the talented team of designers and machinists at The Ohio Broach & Machine Company. These skilled engineers and craftspeople know how to cut metal into different regular and irregular shapes to create various forms, such as hexes, squares, T-shaped slots, teeth, and serrations. Ohio Broach can handle virtually any project type, from medical implants and cutting teeth to hand tools and more.

In-house, world-class broaching equipment

To make these different shapes, the company personnel employ their skills on a broad variety of in-house, world-class broaching equipment. Customers get satisfaction with the range of shapes that this machinery can produce, machinery manufactured by Ohio Broach itself. Among the many examples:

• Hexes and squares – To create hexes and squares in one pass, the company follows a technique known as “broaching on the fly”, which involves the indexing of parts that need these forms with the help of a gap between the tools. Workers cut multiple surfaces in only one cycle this way.
• Irregular shapes – The team can make a broad range of slots, angles, keyways, and radii on virtually any material, including different kinds of steel. This is accomplished in one or two passes by Ohio Broach, in the secondary and final operations on parts.
• T-shaped slots – The company’s machinists make special slots in one or two passes, including the T shape. In the two-pass technique, the first cycle forms the slot and the second generates the top of the T shape. Ohio Broach can broach almost any material into T-shaped slots, including brass, copper, and steel parts.
• Teeth and serrations – Ohio Broach’s staff can form gear teeth on the round rack of a tractor’s power-steering unit, for example, as well as handle intricate serrations on the motor mount of a large tank. Another common project that the company can tackle is small telephone dialing mechanisms, which it can surface-broach in the same way.
• Miscellaneous – Polygons, involute splines, and plier forms are among the other possibilities available from the Ohio Broach team.

To learn more, contact Ohio Broach.

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