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1st Machine Tool Accessories Ltd

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Unit 1,
The Headlands,
Downton,
Salisbury,
Wiltshire,
SP5 3JJ,
United Kingdom

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CNC Bar Feeds

With more than 50 years of experience in the development, manufacture and sale of bar feed systems, loading magazines, workpiece loading systems, unloading systems and custom machines, family-run Breuning IRCO takes bar feeding to the next level and beyond.

Always seeking to innovate and automate by consistently following a vision of production-optimised designs Breuning IRCO has become one of the world’s leading producers of loading and unloading systems for machine tools.

Multizero®

More than 40 years of metal fabrication industry experience has been transferred into every single product developed and produced by Sinco.

Sinco pride themselves in: quick and agile development, premium quality and dedication to customer’s needs.

Power Chucks

Explore our range of chucks including drill chucks, power chucks designed for automatic operation on lathe machines, and other workholding equipment. The open and closed centre drill chucks we stock in particular enhance your workholding precision and capabilities. Using hydraulic clamping systems across our products, our range of power chucks and drill chucks provide secure and efficient clamping, enhancing precision and productivity in every machining process.

Chuck Jaws

Chuck jaws are vital for securely holding and centring your workpiece, ensuring reliable clamping for a variety of materials. Whether you’re working with hard, unmachined surfaces needing aggressive clamping or delicate, thin-walled parts that require wrap-around jaws to prevent deformation, we have the perfect solution.

Collet Chucks

Unlock the full potential of your machining operations with our extensive range of Chucks. Engineered to deliver high precision and strong clamping force, our collet chucks securely hold your tools and workpieces, ensuring exceptional accuracy and efficiency. Whether you’re managing complex projects or routine tasks, we have the perfect solution to meet your specific requirements.

Manual Chucks

Discover our range of manual chucks, designed for use with manual CNC machines and specialised applications. With sizes ranging from 80mm to 2000mm and 2, 3, 4, and 6 jaw options.  We offer the perfect solution for all your workholding needs.

Base Plates

Achieve unmatched stability and precision with our range of base plates, expertly designed for use in a variety of machining operations. Whether your setup is vertical or horizontal, our base plates deliver reliable performance for heavy-duty tasks. Built to offer a stable foundation for both CNC and manual machinery, these plates are essential for ensuring the accuracy of your work.

Rotary Tables

Unlock the full potential of your machining operations with our range of rotary tables. Designed to integrate seamlessly into CNC machining centres. These tables allow for complex and precise multi-axis machining. Whether you’re working with cylindrical parts or executing intricate positioning tasks Our rotary tables provide the flexibility and accuracy you need.

Machine Vices

Experience the precision of our machine vices, meticulously designed to securely hold your workpieces during milling operations. Our range, which includes the adaptable ONELOK and QWIK-LOK models. Is engineered for rapid setup, exceptional stability, and adaptability across various tasks. Whether you’re engaged in heavy-duty machining or delicate operations. Our milling machine vices provide the accuracy and reliability essential for superior results.

Multi-Vice

Achieve flexible and efficient clamping with our range of multi-vice solutions, designed to support a wide variety of workpieces and machining operations. Built on a 360-degree swivel base, these vices offer precise positioning and adaptability, making them ideal for everything from filing and gluing to multi-component clamping in both vertical and horizontal milling setups.

Round Base Plates

Benefit from an entirely stable working area with our range of Round Base Plates. Our range includes base plates that are readily available with holes, t-slots, or plain machinable faces. Allowing for absolute versatility when it comes to ensuring a secure placement for your workpiece.

Centric Vices

Our range of centric vices utilises equal clamping movement in both of their respective jaws. This ensures that your component is always at the centre of the vice. Allowing for completely centric movement. Without having to worry about any imbalances. Centric vices are a perfect addition to 5 axis workholding machines, allowing for complete versatility.

Dovetail Workholding

Dovetail workholding allows gripping on very small amounts of stock with large overhangs. Making it great for workpiece access. Whilst dovetail workholding was originally developed for 5 axis machining. It has found uses in other applications too. We supply Klamp’s SWIFT hydraulic zero point system, based on the tried-and-tested HSK interface.

Fixturing

Building fixtures requires mounting a series of Horizontal Fixturing location and clamping elements to a base. We supply tooling columns and base plates to form the foundation for a fixture as well as clamping and location elements to hold and position your workpiece. Using off-the-shelf components to build a fixture makes the job quicker and easier. Many of these components are also used for direct-to-table applications in CNC and conventional machines.

MultiLOK

Chick’s range of MultiLOK’s have a built-in modular system of workholding based on soft jaws or faceplates. These tooling columns can accommodate a wide variety of shapes, sizes and quantities of workpieces. All Chick products have the potential to radically increase productivity by reducing setup and loading times and presenting more parts to the machine spindle.

Tooling Columns

Tombstones and tooling columns for horizontal machining centres and manual horizontal millers. Raw columns ready to dedicate to specific fixtures and pre-drilled or t-slot columns to accept a range of standard clamps. And location devices. Available in aluminium and cast iron, with or without prepared holes and t-slots.

Base Components

The base plates in this section are available with holes, t-slots or with plain machinable faces.

Within this section you will find flat plates and angled plates that are often found on vertical and horizontal machines,

Both CNC and conventional.

Clamps

At 1st Machine Tool Accessories, we have a variety of general clamps available in our range that are ready for fixture building.

Not only are the clamps in our range ready made for machining fixtures, they are also ready ready for direct-to-table machining operations. giving you another option for safe and secure product clamping. 

Top-clamps, edge clamps and various serrated, smooth and machinable items are all examples of our wider machine clamping product range.

Many items are suitable for CNC clamping and conventional machines as well as for non-machining applications such as fixtures for fabrication or assembly.

Coolant / Oil Recovery

Our range of Coolant/Oil Recovery solutions can ensure you don’t lose out on precious oil and coolants,

Allowing for a sustainable operation, and ensuring maximum efficiency.

Typically found on workholding machines with conveyors, uses on soluble coolants and neat oil up to 32cs.

Drill Sharpeners

We offer a range of drill sharpeners for all your workholding needs.

Easy to use, the drill sharpeners range we have are a perfect solution for both HSS and carbide drill bits, allowing for the continued operation of your current drill. With the ability to fit the whole drill chuck into the sharpener, a more efficient sharpening process is created, allowing work to start again quickly.

We offer both automated and manual drill sharpeners, all of which provide extreme accuracy to suit most workholding applications.

Our drill sharpening products are capable of sharpening countersinks, 90° spot drills, and many others thanks to our additional range of adaptions attachments.

Filtration

With our range of filtration solutions, you can significantly reduce the contamination of different materials.

This will ensure that the lifespan and performance of both your workholding tools and coolants remains in their best shape,

Ensuring greater longevity and efficiency. Our filtration range is exceptionally suitable for turning, grinding, and EDM applications.

Automated Loading & Unloading Solutions

With more than 50 years of experience in the development, manufacture and sale of bar feed systems, loading magazines, workpiece loading systems, unloading systems and custom machines, family-run Breuning IRCO takes bar feeding to the next level and beyond.

Always seeking to innovate and automate by consistently following a vision of production-optimised designs Breuning IRCO has become one of the world’s leading producers of loading and unloading systems for machine tools.

CNC Automation

Reduce the need for manual application with our range of CNC automation solutions.

Built for complete ease of access for anyone looking to maximise efficiency and productivity,

As you require zero robotics experience, can be set up in under 5 minutes – allowing for a complete plug-and-play- operation.

Our range of automation solutions is perfect for 5 axis, lathe, and milling workholding stations.

Loading Robots

HALTER Loading Robots with LoadAssistant provide the flexibility to quickly respond to your customers.

Why choose a HALTER CNC robot:World market leader with proven technology.

Complete plug-and-play solutions for every brand of CNC machine, new or existing.

Robot Grippers

Incrementally we are expanding the range and capabilities of our pneumatic robot grippers.

Extensively tested to operate in the harsh metal cutting environments we manufacture our grippers to be the lightest,

With the highest clamping force in class and to out-last other grippers. In an industry first a range of our grippers can measure your workpiece as it been handled which removes the requirement for manual measurement processes and in turn allows immediate communication with your machine to alter the machining processes to guarantee that workpiece remain with within the necessary tolerance.

About us

1st Machine Tool Accessories, also known as 1mta, are leading specialists in quality machine tools. 

We provide a one stop shop for machine tool accessories that meet the needs of your machining requirements. We take away the hassle of searching for the best items as we only supply high quality products from the very best manufacturers.

Our Vast Product Range Includes:

CNC Bar Feeds

With over five decades of expertise in designing, manufacturing, and supplying bar feed systems, loading magazines, workpiece loaders, unloaders, and bespoke machinery, family-owned Breuning IRCO continues to set new standards in bar feeding technology. Driven by a commitment to innovation and automation, and guided by a clear vision for production-optimised solutions, Breuning IRCO has earned its place as a global leader in loading and unloading systems for machine tools

Multizero®

Serving as the link between the machine table and the workholding device, MultiZero stands out for its impressive versatility, offering setup time reduction and downtime minimisation across nearly all machine tools. Available in rectangular or square designs, the MultiZero Clamping System is universally compatible with vertical and horizontal machining centres, including 3-axis, 5-axis, and 4-axis horizontal setups.

Turning Tools

This category encompasses a range of tools essential for turning operations. From power chucks and chuck jaws to collet chucks and expanding mandrels, these tools facilitate precise and efficient turning processes. Barfeeders and chucking systems enhance productivity, while custom solutions cater to specific machining requirements, ensuring versatility and performance.

Milling Tools

Milling tools are vital for a variety of milling operations. Jaw finders aid in workpiece positioning, while 5-axis and horizontal milling machines offer flexibility and capability for complex machining tasks. Fixturing solutions ensure secure workpiece clamping, while ancillaries and automation options streamline milling operations, improving efficiency and throughout.

Workpiece Positioning Tools

Jaw finders play a crucial role in accurately positioning workpieces for machining operations. These tools ensure precise alignment, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of machining processes.

Advanced Machining Systems

5-axis and horizontal machining systems represent cutting-edge technology in the machining industry. 5-axis machines offer unparalleled versatility, allowing for complex geometries and multi-sided machining in a single setup. Horizontal machining centers excel in high-volume production environments, delivering exceptional speed and efficiency.

Fixture Solutions & Automation

Fixturing solutions are essential for securely holding workpieces during machining operations. They ensure stability and repeatability, minimising errors and maximising productivity. Ancillaries and automation options further enhance efficiency by streamlining workflows and reducing manual intervention, leading to increased throughput and reduced cycle times.

All of which provide you with peace of mind and satisfaction guaranteed.

1st MTA understands the importance of reliable machine tools that can stand the test of time and also retain accuracy that is why all our items are backed by excellent warranty and service, provided by our dedicated team of technical engineers. In addition we recognise the importance of maintaining a safe and efficient working environment and as such we stock unrivalled heavy duty air cleaners available in the market today.

Here at 1st Machine Tools customers’ satisfaction is paramount to our success that is why our experience staff members are here to discuss your requirements and offer advice prior to you placing an order. Demonstrations of selected products are also available from external sales specialists on request.

Contact us now for more details.

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