Rear Toolholder

The rear toolholder has been an invaluable addition to the Hardinge. It allows "finishing" tools like cutoff blades or beveling tools to be installed and used without changing the setup on the front toolholder. The only thing different about them is that they generally need to be installed upside down, due to the rotation of the spindle. This particular set is a "stacked" design, with an intermediate spacer block and a precision sliding tool block on top of it, permitting extremely fine adjustments of the cutting tool at the rear that are independent of the cross slide. This allows quick alignment of a tool in the front toolpost and the one in the rear for simultaneous machining of a part.



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