In addition to traditional commercial sprocket offerings, PEER Chain & Sprockets recently announced it can custom bore any size sprocket that has an existing keyway and deliver them within days of an order placement. ¡°The boring bar loves 100 percent material,¡± Ray, a machinist and CNC operator at PEER said. ¡°When boring a bigger hole in an existing sprocket, you have to drill through the existing keyway, and when you get through, the carbide is hit with a baseball bat-like crack. You don¡¯t want that because it could undermine the bore¡¯s dimension. The carbide starts screaming and yelling at you until it finally hits material on the other side of the keyway. Our process takes the ¡®baseball bat¡¯ out of the game.¡± PEER Chain provides a wide range of finished bore and plain bore sprockets. Finished bore sprockets are machined to American National Standards Institute (ANSI) specification tolerances with one keyway aligned to the center of a sprocket tooth and with two set screws. One set screw is centered on the keyway and the other at 90 degrees. Fact MR, the globally recognized provider of high-quality market research, predicts the global sprocket market will nearly double to $9.6 billion by 2033. Ray is mentoring other skill-driven employees on the boring lathe so they can quickly help customers with their immediate needs. ¡°Often it¡¯s our customers¡¯ customers who need the sprocket yesterday, so when we can turn the project around for them in a day or two, it¡¯s very satisfying,¡± he said. ¡°If we didn¡¯t have these sprockets already in-house, it could be up to a 20-week delay.¡± PEER Chain, which is ISO 2001 certified, purchased the lathe to re-bore sprockets to reduce slow moving inventory, said PEER President Drew Beadle. ¡°We were able to bring Ray into our family fold, leveraging his experience to offer customers customized sprockets with no minimum order requirements. If they want a single sprocket with a certain imperial measure boring, we will produce it.¡± Beadle said PEER has no limitations on customization of the finished size bore. ¡°For our customers, it¡¯s all about speed to market,¡± Beadle commented.
