Hardinge Conquest 42 Chucking Machine, 1988

Chucking machines are used to manufacture high precision parts that are turned, faced, bored, threaded, or otherwise machined while being held in a chuck or collet. A variety of different cutting tools are successively used to shape the part. The Conquest 42 combines the high precision of its manually operated predecessors with the flexibility and automatic operation made possible by computer control.