Subject: Production Engineering and Robotics

Difficulty: Medium

Marks: 4 Marks

Cylindrical locators:

• Cylindrical locators are very useful when finely finished holes are available for the positioning of components.It is used for locating components having drilled holes.
• The cylindrical component to be located is gripped by a cylindrical locator fitted to the jig‟s body and inserted in the drilled hole of the component.
• The face of the jig‟s body around the locator is undercut to provide space for swarf clearance.