Custom Calibration Sphere This is a custom calibration sphere. It features a 15.0 mm diameter ceramic sphere and stainless steel base. What’s unusual is its relatively short 55.0 mm length, and its ¼-20 UNC thread. The base has a 12.0 ...
This month’s Probe of the Month was designed for use on a Faro CMM. It features a solid stainless steel body with M6 threads on one end with a 6.0 mm zirconia ball on the other. The zirconia ball is...
February 2017’s Probe of the Month ™ is an M4 disk stylus for use with a Blum machine tool probe head. The solid carbide disk is 8.0 mm diameter by 5.0 mm thick. The ceramic shaft is 4.0 mm diameter,...
This is a 45 mm diameter silicon nitride ball mounted on a 6 mm carbide shaft and titanium base with M5 thread. The stylus is 100 mm long overall, tipping the scales at 178 grams. Our client is a packaging machinery manufacturer...
Probe of the Month is a 1.500" diameter hard chrome steel ball fitted with a titanium stem. The stem has an M8 internal thread for mounting to the client's Romer arm CMM. The entire assembly weighs 220 grams. Our client...
Our first 3D printed part! It's an M5 extension with fittings in both ends. It's shown with a 2.5 mm ruby stylus attached. The extension is 50 mm long and 11 mm square. We printed it using a proprietary blend of carbon...
February's Probe of the Month is a custom titanium disk probe. The solid titanium disk is 4.050" in diameter and 0.200" thick. It's shown mounted on our VM5-18.150-A aluminum extension with our stainless steel disk screw DS-300. By itself, the...
January's Probe of the Month is an unusual right-angle double disk probe. The disks are made from solid carbide. They are 15.0 mm in diameter and 10.0 mm thick. The carbide stems are 7.0 mm diameter. The stems are fitted...
Our Probe of the Month for December 2015 is a custom M3 threaded silicon nitride stylus. The silicon nitride ball is 15 mm diameter. It has a 4 mm diameter stainless steel M3 threaded stem bonded into a hole we...
Our Probe of the Month for November 2015 is a custom bent stylus. The shaft is 11 mm diameter stainless steel with a 20.0 mm ceramic ball mounted at the tip. The shaft is fastened to a CMM adapter plate....
Our Probe of the Month for October 2015 is a custom rotating hook probe. The shaft is stainless steel with a conical PF rotating connection near the M4 thread at left in the picture. The two-piece brazed carbide shaft is...
Our Probe of the Month for September is a custom one-piece disk probe. Made from stainless steel, it features a 13 mm diameter disk that is 1.0 mm thick. The disk has a full radiused edge, meaning the radius is...
