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Bigger envelope vertical-spindle machining centre
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Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Oct 6, 2000
The new, Spanish-built Kondia ZM-99 vertical-spindle machining centre from Geo Kingsbury MHP has a working envelope more than 50 per cent larger than the CM60-MA model which it replaces.
The new, Spanish-built Kondia ZM-99 vertical-spindle machining centre from Geo Kingsbury MHP has a working envelope more than 50 per cent larger than the CM60-MA model which it replaces.
Despite the increase in Y and Z travels to 400 mm and 510 mm respectively (X remains the same at 660 mm), and also the inclusion as standard of a 20-station random-access changer for the 40 taper tools (formerly an ?8,650 optional extra), the cost of the ZM-99 is equivalent to that of its predecessor.
Of moving column design and with a counterbalanced head, this must be one of the most competitively priced, twin-pallet machining centres on the market.
The specification has not been compromised, however.
Integral cooling and air blast are provided for the 100 - 6,000 rpm (optionally 8,000 or 10,000 rpm) spindle.
Linear slides in X and Y allow 40 metres/min rapids, or 48 metres/min if the Fanuc control option is chosen, whilst the prismatic guideway in Z only marginally lowers positioning speed to 36 metres/min.
Pallet index time is three seconds.
A through-spindle coolant facility, swarf conveyor and rotary tables for the addition of fourth and fifth CNC axes remain options.
They allow the machine to be employed for such applications as deep hole drilling, long production runs and complex mould and die work.
Virtually everything is within its scope.
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