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Brown’s Portable Machining & Welding out of Edmonton, Alberta, utilizes eight (8) CLIMAX BB5000 Line Boring setups to refurbish two 64-yard (58.5-meter) buckets from a Caterpillar 7495 electric rope shovel in Fort McMurray. These buckets have 24 bores and require 13 to 14 setups to...

Do you have questions regarding your CLIMAX portable mill? Or are you considering purchasing a portable mill? Jim Miller, Sr. Product and Applications Expert for CLIMAX, shares commonly asked questions he receives in this previously recorded question and answer session! Do you have questions regarding your...

Out of Casper, Wyoming, HAMM Equipment uses the CLIMAX LM6200 Gantry Mill with a customized roller path mill to restore a Caterpillar 7495 car body. The CLIMAX LM6200 Linear/Gantry Mill: The CLIMAX LM6200 is the most powerful portable milling machine. A revolutionary, heavy-duty mill that can be...

Employee safety has to be priority number one, and most companies would prefer to avoid an OSHA audit if they can prevent it. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has training requirements in fall protection, electrical safety, lockout-tagout, respiratory protection, and machine guarding. One of...

T&T In Situ Machining out of Norderstedt, Germany, uses a CLIMAX CM6200 Circular Mill to machine the landing surface of a transition piece as part of a monopile for an offshore wind turbine. The challenge was machining in a confined space 6m deep within the...

Designed for shaft diameters from 0.75 to 10.5 inches (19.1 to 266.7 mm), the CLIMAX KM3000 Key Mill is the tool that started it all more than 50 years ago! The KM3000 Portable Key Mill is a simple, rugged, dependable machine tool designed to cut...

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The FF6300 Flange Facer delivers high-torque performance to quickly re-surface flanges and repair sealing and bearing surfaces efficiently and cost-effectively. It can be configured in either ID, OD, or surface-mount configurations for a variety of machining applications, with a quick and easy changeover. Facing diameters...

Peninsula Iron Works, out of Portland, Oregon, used a BORETECH BW5000 Auto Bore Welder to weld up the mantle seat of a Symons 7 ft rock crusher in preparation for re-machining it back to the proper profile. Blake Westing says, “Mounting a unit like this to...

What are the advantages of having infinitely variable feed rates when flange facing? Jim Miller, Sr. Product and Applications Expert for CLIMAX, shares his thoughts in this previously recorded question and answer session! Do you have questions regarding your Flange Facing project? Contact us today to...