Bal-tec™ Home Alphabetical Index
12 X 16 Kinematic Coupling / Platform
3" Extensions for CMM Probe Characterization Sphere (Riser)
3 X 3 Kinematic Coupling / Platform
45 Degree Probe Calibration Sphere, Replacement
6" extensions for CMM Probe Characterization Sphere (riser)
6 X 6 Kinematic Coupling / Platform
7th Degree of Freedom, Or It’s Just Another Way of Looking at Things.
Abalone, Vacuum Chuck / Hold Down
Absolute Positioning Kinematically
Acrylic Balls / Lucite Balls / Plexiglas®
Accurately Measuring the Ball Bar Center to Center Distance
Adjustable Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Kit
Adjustable Ball Bars (Dumbbells)
Adjustable Ball Bars for CMM Evaluation
Adjustable Kinematic Couplings
Alignment of Machine Tool Axis
All Ball Bar Stand Mounting Hardware
All Probe Characterization Spheres
Aluminum Balls; Common Ball Materials
Aluminum Balls; Alloy Selection
Aluminum Oxide - Ceramic Balls
Archival Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Is A Three Dimensional Gage Block
Articulating Arm Calibration Device
Articulating Arm Coordinate Measuring Machine Calibration
Articulating Arm Measuring Machine Calibration
Axis Alignment for Machine Tools
Bakelite Plastic Balls (Phenol Formaldehyde)
Ball Bar Calibration, Secrets of
Ball Bar (Dumbbell), Carbon Fiber
Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Case Studies
Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Magic (Introduction)
Ball Bar (Dumbbell), Measuring the Ball Center to Center Distance
Ball Bar (Dumbbell), Ultra Precise
Ball Bar - Midrange Optical Scanning
Ball Contact for Indicating Gage
Ball Gage Technical Information Sheet
Ball Gages, Ball Plug Gages, Go-No Go Ball Gages
Ball Mounting for Kinematic Clamping
Ball Plug Gage with A Bent Stem
Ball Plug Gage with One Flat Side
Ball Plug Gage with Two Parallel Flats
Ball Scribe (Ball Pencil, Scratch Evaluation Ball)
Ball Size Measuring Compatibility
Ball, Truncated with Counterbored Hole
Ball, Truncated with Threaded Hole
Ball with Concentric Blind Hole
Ball with Counterbored Through Hole
Ball with Flat (Truncated Ball)
Ball with Flat Counterbored Hole
Ball with Flat and Threaded hole
Balls With Drilled Through Hole
Bal-tec in Los Angeles Business Journal
Big Balls, Grinding, Technical Data
Build CMM Pretzel with Off the Shelf Parts
Calculate the Area of a Sphere
Calibration of Ball Bar Length
Calibration of Ball Bar (Triple Cross)
Calibration Spheres, Precise and Ultra Precise
CanoeSphere (2" diameter) - CS-2000
CanoeSphere, Miniature (1.125" diameter) - CS-1125-CPM
CanoeSphere, Sub-Miniature (.750" diameter) - CS-750-SM
CanoeSphere, Monster (6" x 4") - MCS5000
CanoeSphere (.750" diameter) Meniscus Controversy Response
CanoeSphere Alignment Techniques
Cantilever Ball Bar (Dumbbell)
Cantilever Designed Ball Bar (Dumbbell)
Characterization Ball (Sphere)
CMM Calibration Equipment Directory
CMM Calibration Video and Poster
CMM Evaluation with Kinematic Platform
CMM Products Usage Video (220 MB, .MP4)
CMM Table Tie Down Adaptor Screws
CMM's Can Be Calibrated and Fixtured with Ease
CMM, How The Ball Bar Checks the Squareness of a
Collar for Heavy Duty Stand, Mammoth Stand, Anchor Stand
Collar for Long Gage Block Clamp
Complete Ball as a Kinematic Component
Complex CMM Probes Characterized with Mini Ball Bar
Composite Ball Bar (Dumbbell), Carbon Fiber
Constraint and Elasticity in Kinematics
Copper Sulfate Test on Stainless Steel Balls
Coordinate Measuring Machine Calibration Equipment Directory
Custom Made Kinematic Parts, Pictures
Cryogenic Effect on Kinematic Systems
Cylinder with a Flat, Recess, and Counterbored Holes
Cylinder with a Flat, Recess, and Threaded Holes
Cylinder, Truncated, Recessed, Counterbored Holes
Cylinder, Truncated, Recessed, Threaded Holes
Cylinder with Two Concentric Blind Holes
Cylindrical Boss Mounted Vee Block, For 5/8" (0.625", 15.875 mm) through 1.0"(25.4 mm) Balls
Cylindrical Lapping witha Stick Lap
Diamond Charged Lap Ball / Seat Lapping Tool
Diamond Charged Seat Lapping Tool
Diamond Impregnated Lapping Balls
Disc with a Large Spherical Surface
Double Adjustable Screw Stop Post
Drilled and Threaded Kinematic Balls
Dual Functioning Ball Plug Gage
E.D.M. (Electro Discharge Machining)
Elasticity as the 7th Degree of Freedom
Evaluating CNC (Computer Numerical Controlled) Machines
Evaluating Large Coordinate Measuring Machines and Laser Trackers with a Giant Invar™ Ball Bar
Evaluation of CMM Using Ultra-Precise Ball Bars
Extensions for Probe Characterization and CNC Target Spheres (aka: Risers, Posts)
Extra Long Collar For 3-Inch Posts
Extreme Load Carrying Radiuses Surface
Fast CMM Evaluation Using Corner Diagonals
Finger Knob for Clamping Screws
Flat, The Giant, Two Inch Diameter
Flat, Kinematic Component, Plain
Flat Prismatic Components for Kinematics
Flatted Ball, (see Truncated Ball)
Flatness Testing by A Simple Accurate Method
Flaw Evaluation Ball (Ball Pencil, Ball Scribe)
Flaw Evaluation with Small Spherical Probes
Flexacanoe-750 - 2" Z-Adjustable Kinematic Coupling
Flexacanoe-2000 - 4" Z-Adjustable Kinematic Coupling
Flexasphere-750 - 2" Z-Adjustable Kinematic Coupling with ball contact
Free Standing Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Kit
Full Ball with Counterbored Hole
Gage, The Care and Grooming of Spherical Gages
Gage Block Clamp for Long Blocks
Giant Ball Bar Like Calibration Device
Giant Calibration Device For Giant CMM's
Giant Invar™ Ball Bar (Dumbbell)
Giant Laser Tracker Evaluation Device
Giant Size Cylindrical Post Mounted Kinematic Vee Block
Giant Surface Mounted Kinematic Vee Block, for 1.5" (38.1 mm) Balls through 2.0" (50. 8 mm) Balls
Gigantic Load Supporting Kinematic Structures
Glossary, at Cutting Tool Engineering Magazine
The Gono™ Ball Plug Gage is much more than a cute idea
Grinding Lubricant for Centers
Half Inch Counter Bored Adaptor
Handle Those Gage Blocks with Care
Hardened Balls Machined by Space Age EDM Technology
Hardness Effects of Specimen Preparation, The
Hardness Testing Small Diameter Balls
Heidenhain Measuring Gages at Bal-tec
Heavy Duty Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Stand
Heavy Load Kinematic Coupling, Canoe Sphere
Heavy Load Spherical Component
High Load Carrying Spherical Components
High Load Kinematic Coupling, Canoe Sphere
Hollow Balls, Modified, Picture
How Do We Actually Manufacture Balls at the Nanometer Quality Level?
How Kinematic Couples Can Be Used in Metrology
How The Ball Bar Checks the Squareness of a CMM
How to Choose the Best Probe Calibration Sphere for Your Application
How to Choose the Right Ball Bar (Dumbbell) for your Application
Huge Spherical Kinematic Components
Information on Ordering Balls and Rollers
Interim Check for CMM Machines
Introduction to Kinematics and Applications
Kalisphere Used for CMM Probe Calibration
Kinematic Ball with a Concentric Blind Hole
Kinematic Ball, Drilled and Threaded
Kinematic Ball, Full with a Counterbored Hole
Kinematic Components, Catalog 105B
Kinematic Components Directory
Kinematic Components for Micro Inch Positioning
Kinematic Components Graphical Summary Page
Kinematic Components Update 2002
Kinematic Coupling Design For Identical Z Axis Repeatability
Kinematic Couplings, Magnetically Preloaded
Kinematic Couplings and the Parameters that Affect Their Design
Kinematic Cylinders, Truncated
Kinematic Cylinders, Truncated and Recessed
Kinematic Cylinders, Truncated and Threaded
Kinematic Cylinders, Truncated with Counterbored Holes
Kinematic Cylindrical Post Mount for 5/8" to 1"
Kinematics, Constraint and Elasticity Issues
Kinematic Platform, 12"-16" Pre-assembled
Kinematic Surface Mount Vee Block for 5/8" to 1"
Kinematic Threaded Ball, Catalog Page
Kinematic Vee Block, Cylindrical Boss Mounted
Kinematic Vee Block, Teeny Tiny
Lapping Cylinders with a Stick Lap
Lapping Outside Diameters with a Ring Lap
Large Diameter and Really Big Balls
Large Diameter Balls, Grinding, Technical Data
Large Scale Calibration, (Centerline Ranger)
Laser Scale Bar, (Centerline Ranger)
Laser Scanner Calibration Balls
Laser Tracker, Calibration, Centerline
Laser Tracker Calibration Device
Laser Tracker, Carbon Fiber Ball Bar
Laser Scanning Master Sphere Set
Length Calibration of a Ball Bar
Length Calibration of a Ball Bar (Triple Cross)
Length Standard Ball Bar Used to Calibrate Machinery
Lucite Balls / Acrylic Balls / Plexiglas® Balls
Machine Tool Probe Calibration Spheres
Magnetic Base Probe Calibration Sphere Kit
Magnetic Base Doubled (MAG-BASE-2)
Magnetically Preloaded Kinematic Couplings
Making a Custom Machined 12" Diameter Ball
Mammoth, A Super Heavy Duty Gage Stand
Measuring Absolute Ball Diameter Commercially
Measuring Internal Spherical Diameters
Measuring Internal Threads with Balls
Measuring Small Diameter Balls
Measuring the Absolute Diameter of Plastic Balls
Mechanical Clamping of Kinematic Couplings
Medically Oriented Ball Products, Producing
Microscope Profilometer Calibration Spheres
Micro Inch Positioning with Kinematic Components
Mid Size Vee Block, Cylindrical Post Mounted
Mid Size Vee Block, Surface Mounted
Military Specifications (Mil-Spec)
Mobile Coordinate Measuring Machine Calibration
Monday Morning, Interim Check for CMM Machines
Monuments for Probe Calibration
Mounting Ultra-Precision Spheres for Calibration and Inspection Applications
Motion Picture Spherical Mirror
Nanometer Level Dimensional Metrology
Nanometer Quality Level Ball Manufacturing
Novel Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Stand for Quicker CMM Evaluation
Optical Comparator Calibration, Kalisphere
Optical Probe Calibration Balls
Optical Prilometry Calibration Sphere
Optical Scanning Master Sphere Set
Phenol Formaldehyde Balls (Bakelite)
Plain Flat Kinematic Component
Plexiglas® Balls / Lucite Balls / Acrylic Balls
Polycarbonate Balls / Plexiglas® Balls / Lucite Balls / Acrylic Balls
Portable Coordinate Measuring Machine Calibration
Portable Arm Calibration Device
Portable Arm CMM Calibration (Centerline Ranger)
Portable Arm Coordinate Measuring Machines Calibration
Post Extension for Probe Characterization and CNC Target Spheres (aka: Risers)
Pre-Assembled Kinematic Platform
Precise and Ultra-Precise Calibration Spheres for CMM's and Master Balls
Precise and Ultra-Precise Calibration Spheres for CMM's
Precision Probes for Portable CMM's
Pretzel, Build CMM with Off the Shelf Parts
Prismatic Components for Kinematics, Flat
Probe Calibration Sphere for Machine Tools
Probe Characterization Spheres
Producing Medically Oriented Ball Products
Profilometer Calibration Spheres
Quality Control, Statistics & Ball Production
The Quality of Tantalum Marker Beads
Radiation Hardened Kinematic Systems
Recent Developments in Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Technology
Replacement 45° Probe Calibration Sphere
Replacement Probe Calibration Sphere
Reversible Roundness Machine Calibration Sphere
Riser extensions for CMM Probe Characterization Sphere, 3" and 6", (aka: Posts)
Round Extensions for Bar Hold Down Clamps
Roundness Machine Master Calibration Spheres AUT-MS.5
Roundness Measurement of Our Gage Balls, Making the
Rugged Stand for Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Evaluation of Coordinate Measuring Machines
Runt, The; Shorter Probe Calibration Sphere
Sapphire Oil, Lubricant for Ball Sizing
Satin Finished Balls, for Optical Calibration
Satin Finish Titanium Ball with a Magnet
Scale Bar, also known as Ball Bar and Dumbbell
Screws for Adaptor Hold Down on CMM
Screw Stop Post, Short Adjustable
Secrets of Ball Bar Calibration
Seventh Degree of Freedom, The
The Seventh Degree of Freedom, Or It’s Just Another Way of Looking at Things.
Shadow Graph Calibration, Kalisphere
The Shielded Calibration Spheres
Short Adjustable Screw Stop Post
Single Element Go No Go Ball Gages
SMR, Spherically Mounted Reflector
Small Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Clamp
Snake Ball, Go/ No Go Gage for Tubes
Software Errors in CMM Evaluation
Split Kinematic Vee Block, Use of
Special Reports and Technical Papers
Split Kinematic Vee Block without Abbé Offset Problems
Stainless Steel Balls, Type 440C Hardened
Standard Ball Bar (Dumbbell) for Evaluation of Coordinate Measuring Machines
Standard Ball Bar for Evaluation of Coordinate Measuring Machines
Standard Commercial Balls, Directory of Products
Standard Extensions for Probe Characterization and CNC Target Spheres
Standard Length Ball Bars (Dumbbells) Available From Stock
Standardized Instrument Components
Standardized Kinematic Components
Standardized Tooling Components
Star Probe Calibration Artifact
Super Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Thing
Tantalum Marker Bead Micro Hardness Testing
Tantalum Marker Beads, the Quality of
Teeny Tiny Vee Block - Cylindrical Post Mounted
The Geostep 3400™ For Full CMM Calibration
The Two Ball Kinematic Coupling
Time-Saving Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Fixture (3B-KM)
Tiny Ball Sphericity Measurement
Tri-mount, Collar for Ball Bar
Truncated and Recessed Cylinder
Truncated and Threaded Cylinder
Truncated Ball with Blind Hole
Truncated Ball with Counterbored Hole
Truncated Cylinder with Blind Holes
Truncated Cylinder with Counterbored Holes
Tungsten Carbide Balls, qualities of
Two Ball Kinematic Coupling for Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Evaluation of CMM
Ultra Precise Ball Bar (Dumbbell)
Ultra-Precise Calibration Spheres for CMM's
Uniquity of the Precision Ball Manufacturing Process, The
Use of the Split Kinematic Vee Block
Using the Probe Characterization or Calibration Sphere
Vacuum Hold Down Plate / Chuck, Abalone
Variable Length Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Kit
VDI/VDE 260, Vision System Calibration with Ball Bars
Vee Block Design and Mounting Techniques for Kinematic Applications
Vee Block, Giant Surface Mounted Kinematic
Vee Block, Mid-Sized Surface Mounted, For 5/16" (0.3125") (7.9 mm) through 1/2" (12.2 mm) Balls
Vee Block, Surface Mounted, For 5/8" (0.625" 15.875 mm) through 1" (25.4 mm) Balls
Vee Block, Teeny Tiny For 3/16" (0.1875", 4.76 mm) through 1/4" (0.25", 6.35 mm) Balls
Versatile Inspection Ball Kits
Very Long Collar For 3-Inch Posts
Very Short Ball Bars (Dumbbells)
Video Mirror for Wide Angle Photography
Vision System Calibration with Ball Bars
Way Out Ball Bar (Dumbbell) Support
White Light Scanner Calibration Devices
White Light Scanning Master Sphere Set