WALCO Grid Plates

  • Decrease dead zone under spindle.
  • Reduce setup time.
  • Aid in workholding of unusual shapes.
  • Are custom designed to suit your horizontal or vertical machining center.

We provide

  • Surface ground plates with flatness and parallelism superior to milled finish.
  • Inspection in an environmentally controlled lab on DEA Coordinate Measuring Machines.
  • Options of stress relieved cast iron, free machining steel, or aluminum tooling plate.
  • Options of standard precision bore, hardened bushing, or hardened bushing with threaded insert.
  • T-Slots, keyways, and alphanumeric engraving.
  • Estimates for your special application.
  • Vacuum Chucks.
  • Vacuum/MAG Chucks.

Custom Engineered Workholding and Fixtures

Whether it's machined tombstones, custom fixtures or a modular system, WALCO can meet your requirements and ensure that the fixture you get is the fixture you want. WALCO designs and builds ready-to-use dedicated manual fixtures from the ground up for horizontal and vertical machining centers and other CNC machinery.