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News Release from: Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools | Subject: Index MS52 six-spindle automatic lathe
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 July 2002
Six-spindle auto has plenty of capacity
Six-spindle automatic lathe, at the top end of the capacity range, allows economical large batch and mass production of components up to 52mm diameter from bar or 70mm diameter from billets.
A new, six-spindle automatic lathe has been introduced by the German manufacturer, Index, at the top end of the capacity range, allowing economical large batch and mass production of components up to 52mm diameter from bar or 70mm diameter from billets held in a collet Changeover from bar to billet is achieved automatically using a special magazine / loading attachment, allowing considerable flexibility
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Designated MS52, the machine is available in the UK through sole agent, Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools, Gosport.
On machine version MS52G, six counter spindles opposite the 5,000 rpm main spindles, all with C-axis, enable simultaneous front- and back-working in the same cycle.
Each spindle has its own drive motor so that cutting conditions are not compromised.
Driven tools and Y-axes afford complete machining of parts to close tolerances, with up to three tools mounted on independent slides at each position (18 in total) working simultaneously on the component, both on the front end and on the reverse.
The machine, which combines the speed of cam-type auto's with the flexibility of CNC, is also available in a quill version (MS52P) instead of having counter spindles.
The quill machine has been designed for complex parts that mostly require machining on one end, involving the use of a large number of tools.
Up to 17 tool carriers can be equipped with one or two tools each for front-end machining, the compound slides and tools on the quill-side and those on the main spindle side being identical.
The workpiece can be picked-up by a synchro spindle if required and machined with up to three tools.
Two of these rearworking tools may be live, enabling such operations as off-center hole drilling and threadcutting after part-off.
(This was Manufacturingtalk's Top Story on 3 July 2002).
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