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Placid Industries

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All manufacturing & assembly is done in our 9800 square ft. building, in Lake Placid, NY, USA.
machines photo   CNC Lathe & Machining Center


(left) Brother machining center &
(right) Mori-Seiki CNC lathe make precision parts for our brakes & clutches.



Brother (the same company that makes sewing machines, fax machines & printers) makes the best tapping-drilling-milling machines.

Mori Seiki is the world's premier machine tool builder.
machine photo   Brother Machining Centers


(Left) Drilling & tapping B150 brake case.

(Right) Drilling & milling H85 hysteresis brake body.

machine photo   Schutte Screw Machines


Making pole blanks for B150 magnetic particle brake.

6 bars of metal, up to 3-7/16" diameter, are simultaneously machined.
After cut off, the part slides down the chute.


This is the largest of our 3 Shuttes.
machine photo   Grinding

Grinding the shaft of C130 clutch 'shaft-disk' assembly.
Grinding makes very precise parts.


We have 3 high precision Swiss-made Tschudin cylindrical grinders, 3 Lidkoping centerless grinders, a USA-made Blanchard rotary surface grinder, 2 horizontal surface grinders and an Okamoto internal grinder
brake photo   Brakes, in our assembly room


Model B60-1F brake, heading to Germany, for tensioning media in digital printing presses.



We torque test every brake & clutch.

We wind & solder our own coils, manufacture & zinc electroplate the machined parts & calibrate our torque testers in house.

owners photo   Owners

(Left) Jeff Pedu, President

(Right) Jason Pedu, V.P.


Enjoying the Formula 1 Grand Prix car race in nearby Montreal, Canada in 2005.
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