CNC Machine Shop

What is ​Top Flight Machine Tool ?

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​Top Flight Machine Tool provides top-quality service and products for the best prices on the market.

Located in Plainville, we are the national authority on CNC milling, with a special focus on aerospace manufacturing and medical device manufacturing. Our capable and knowledgeable technicians provide all of the specialty parts you need at competitive prices that you’ll love. You simply won’t find better, more complete machining services anywhere!

 

Top Flight Machine Tool provides you with an impressive selection of CNC machining services. No matter your needs, we create parts that keep your equipment operating at top safety and efficiency standards. Our high-precision machined components and kits meet all of your parts and assembly needs. From actuation systems and gear systems to landing gear and seating, and the smallest medical device parts, our focus is to execute industry-leading service, providing turn-key solutions for our customers. We know that to be your vendor, we need to deliver quality parts for you, which is why we strive to offer the very best services no matter how big your needs are!

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Top Flight Machine Tool offers personal customer service that you expect from a smaller company with the same resources you expect from an industry giant. Our team will exceed your every expectation, we guarantee it!

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What is precision machining?

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Precision Machining is a process to remove material from a workpiece during holding close tolerance finishes. The precision machine has many types, including milling, turning and electrical discharge machining. A precision machine today is generally controlled using a Computer Numerical Controls (CNC).

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What is Custom machining?

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A “custom machined” part in CNC language generally refers to piece-parts, or component parts which are custom machined to a customer’s specific requirements from multiple drawings or specifications.   Generally the customer’s requirements are conveyed by a detailed drawing along with additional notations by engineers or designers of the mechanism. To be custom machined is to be outsourced to a third party like Top Flight Machine Tool where you know the parts are made precisely and accurately. 

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Custom machined parts are typically purchased for one or more of the following reasons:

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•  The part is not available as a catalog or off-the-shelf item

•  The part has special requirements

•  The volume of parts needed is too low to justify other forms of fabrication

•  A formed, cast, or molded part would not have an adequate level of precision or strength

•  The parts are needed very quickly​

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Depending on the part’s shape and requirements custom machined parts might be made on a lathe, a milling machine, a stamping press, a press-brake, a precision shear, or machined on a myriad of other types of precision equipment. At Top Flight Machine Tool we have all the necessary equipment to produce your parts or even prototypes and new designs.  In many cases a custom machined part might pass through many of the operations listed before being finished. Although custom machined parts are typically more expensive than a mass-produced method, quite often the higher price is justified due to the fact that custom machined parts are generally more accurate, offer higher strength and/or integrity and can be made much faster than most other methods. Contact us today to see about our pricing. We are competitive and fair in our industry with a state-of-the-art facility. You can submit your design specifications or production specifications to us through our contact form or to our email.​

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What is CNC turning?​

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CNC Turning is a manufacturing process in which bars of material are held in a chuck and rotated while a tool is fed to the piece to remove material to create the desired shape. CNC lathes or turning centers have tooling mounted on a turret which is computer-controlled. We have the top of the line equipment for CNC Turning.

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What is CNC Milling?

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Milling is the process of cutting and drilling material (like wood or metal). A milling machine, regardless of whether it’s operated manually or through CNC, uses a rotating cylindrical tool called a milling cutter. It is held in a spindle and can vary in form and size. The main difference between a milling machine and any other drilling machine is the ability to cut in different angles and move along different axes. For this reason, there are several kinds of milling machines, which are designated by the number of movement axes.

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What is a stamping machine?

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Stamping (also known as pressing) is the process of placing flat sheet metal in either blank or coil form into a stamping press where a tool and die surface forms the metal into a net shape. Stamping includes a variety of sheet-metal forming manufacturing processes, such as punching using a machine press or stamping press, blanking, embossing, bending, flanging, and coining. This could be a single stage operation where every stroke of the press produces the desired form on the sheet metal part, or could occur through a series of stages. The process is usually carried out on sheet metal, but can also be used on other materials, such as polystyrene. Progressive dies are commonly fed from a coil of steel, coil reel for unwinding of coil to a straightener to level the coil and then into a feeder which advances the material into the press and die at a predetermined feed length. Depending on part complexity, the number of stations in the die can be determined.