Picture and Video Gallery

Bal-tec Corporate Head Office
Bal-tec Corporate Head Office
Bal Tec at Quality Expo 2009
Bal Tec at Quality Expo 2011
CMM Products Usage Video
Ball Machine in Operation
Specially Packaged Balls
High Quality Stainless Steel Balls Are Specially Packed in Foam Rubber.
Satin Finished Ball Variety
Satin Finished Ball Variety

Custom Made Kinematic Parts

Custom Made Vee Block
Custom Made Vee Block
Custom Made Cylinder
Custom Made Cylinder
Custom Vee Blcok
Custom Made Vee Block
Custom Made Flat
Custom Made Flat, Top View
Custom Made Cone
Custom Made Cone
Custom Made Vee Block
Custom Made Vee Block
Custom Made Authenticator
Custom Made Authenticator

Assembling a Custom Kinematic Platform

Custom Made Kinematic Components
Custom Made Kinematic Components
Custom Top Plate
Custom Top Plate
Top Top Plate
Top Top Plate
Custom Bottom Plate
Custom Bottom Plate
Custom Assembly
Custom Assembly
Custom Kinematic Assembly
Custom Kinematic Assembly
Custom Kinematic Test
Custom Kinematic Test

Stainless Steel Tooling Balls

Stainless Steel Tooling Balls
Stainless Steel Tooling Balls
Tooling Ball
Tooling Ball
Scribe Ball
Trade Show Demonstration of the Sensitive Feel when Using the Ball Scribe

Ball Inventory

Boxed Ball Inventory
Boxed Ball Inventory
Rotobin Inventory
Rotobin Inventory
Bal-tec has the largest ball inventory on the West Coast. Balls are in stock and ready to pack and ship.

Canoe Sphere

Canoe Sphere, Giant
Custom Made Giant Canoe Sphere

Trade Show Pictures

Bal-tec Booth at Wettec 2010 in Los Angeles
The Bal-tec booth at Westtec 2010, pictured (from left), Tony Bartolone and Michael Johnson
Pat Johnson, General Manager
Pat Johnson, General Manager, at Quality Expo, 2009

Copper Sulfate Test on Stainless Steel Balls

Copper-sulfate can be used to test whether a ball is stainless steel or not. This solution consists of copper-sulfate crystals dissolved in a 6 percent solution of sulfuric-acid and water. A drop of this solution on the surface of a clean steel ball will immediately form a bright spot of copper plating. This solution will not affect any of the corrosive resistant materials within a two-minute period, but may react to hard ferritic or Martensitic stainless-steel after a long period of exposure.

 

8g of copper sulfate

8g of copper sulfate
500 ml of distilled water
500 ml of distilled water
dissolved together
dissolved together
2-3 ml of sulfuric acid
2-3 ml of sulfuric acid
6 minute soak
6 minute soak
Visual Inspection
Visual Inspection
Sample Test And Stainless Steel Balls
Sample Test And Stainless Steel Balls

Light Meter Reflection Test Balls / Photogrammetry Spheres

gray and polished steel Balls with posts
gray and polished steel Balls with posts
Boom fixture for holding spheres in the scene
Boom fixture for holding spheres in the scene
Close-up of Balls on the fixture
Close-up of Balls on the fixture

Internal Machining of a Hollow Steel Ball

Beginning cut for I.D. of hollow sphere
Beginning cut for I.D. of hollow sphere
Machining of inside of hollow ball
Machining of inside of hollow ball
final cut on I.D. sphere
final cut on I.D. sphere
Cutting I.D. threads
Cutting I.D. threads
O.D. threads, The two half spheres will screw together
O.D. threads, The two half spheres will screw together

The Making of a Custom Machined 12" Diameter Ball

Cutting Down to the spherical form
Cutting Down to the spherical form
Cutting the first side
Cutting the first side
Loading Material into the CNC Lathe
Loading Material into the CNC Lathe
Loading to machine second side
Loading to machine second side
Raw material and the first side done
Raw material and the first side done
cutting a good spherical form cutting a good spherical form
cutting a good spherical form
cutting second side
cutting second side
finished machined 12 inch plastic ball
finished machined 12 inch plastic ball

Other pictures

Ball on a Pedestal
Ball on a Pedestal
Custom Post For Sphere Custom Post for Sphere
Custom Post For Sphere
Custom Made Vee Block
Custom Made Vee Blocks
Grey Painted Ball for Light Meter Test
Grey Painted Ball for Light Meter Test
Hollow Plastic
Hollow Sphere Used for MRI Calibration
Two Slice Ball
Two Slice Ball
Slices
Slices
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