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News Release from: CTL Centreline | Subject: RAD-120 right-angle mill, drill and tap head
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 May 2001
Drill, mill and tap head lightened for
ATC usage
The Centreline RAD-120 right-angle milling, drilling and tapping head has been redesigned with a fabricated rather than a cast aluminium body and weighs 10 per cent less at 4.1 kg.
The RAD-120 right-angle milling, drilling and tapping head manufactured by Centreline has been redesigned with a fabricated rather than a cast aluminium body and weighs 10 per cent less at 4.1kg The tool is intended to be changed automatically into the spindle of a machining centre, so the magazine now supports less weight and ATC is faster
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Two right-angle heads - one for milling-intensive work and the other for drilling and tapping - can be exchanged automatically from a machining centre's tool magazine.
At the same time, the previous square shape of the unit housing the bevel gears has been changed so that the two outer corners are chamfered.
This contributes not only to the light weight, but also to reduced risk of interference with the workpiece or other tooling in the machining area.
The introduction of the RAD-120 last year at the lower end of the Centreline range, below the -160 and -225, was in response to the trend for high speed machining centres to become smaller in size.
The head has a BT 40 taper, a collet chuck for tool shanks up to 10 mm diameter, and a maximum speed of 6,000 rpm.
Double right angle units based on the RAD-120, -160 and -225 are also standard catalogue items.
They allow both sides of prismatic components to be machined in the same cycle without having to reorientate the tool in the spindle.
Adding further to the RAD tooling range are extended units, increasing in 40mm increments from -160 to -280, the number indicating the measurement from the gauge line of the taper to the centreline of the cutter.
RAM versions of all these tools are available which accept taper tooling instead of having collet chucks to clamp the tool.
In the area of fixed angle heads other than the above 90 degree tooling, the angles of 60, 45 and 30 degrees are now standard catalogue items available at the same price as the right angle heads.
Centreline also manufactures an adjustable angle head.
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