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News Release from: Turning Technologies UK | Subject: Nakamura-Tome WT-300 at JHE
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 March 2008
Mill-turn centre machines high strength
steels
UK aerospace machining subcontractor has installed a fourth twin-spindle/twin-turret mill-turn centre to machine locking pins and wheel nuts from hardened and tempered high strength steels.
Aerospace machining subcontractor, John Huddleston Engineering (JHE), has installed a fourth Nakamura-Tome WT-300 twin-spindle, twin-turret turning centre at its Blackpool, UK, facility It will be used to machine complex components such as locking pins and wheel nuts from hardened and tempered high strength steels
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Whether it is shaft work, bar work or chuck work, the key to a compact, twin-spindle CNC lathe's productivity is its one-hit machining capacity in an extremely compact space.
The WT-300 machines have a through-spindle bar capacity of up to 100mm and a maximum turning diameter of up to 300mm.
Each turret can hold up to 24 tools, including 12 driven tools .
A Y-axis on the upper turret allows complex machining operations.
JHE's Group operations director, Ian Gibson, said: "The benefit that the Nakamura machines give us is that, as far as possible, we are able to produce a finished product on the machine in a single hit without any manual intervention".
Commenting on the WT-300's capability of milling components in the fully hardened and tempered condition, Gibson said: "You have to have a lot of power to be able to do that kind of work".
He added that JHE's three existing WT-300s have been so successful that they are now working at full capacity, hence the need for a fourth machine.
Gibson said: "Having successfully taken up all the capacity on our WT-300 machines we wanted to invest in further capacity that we could bring to the marketplace.
This investment is an extension of what we were already doing and, with the addition of a fourth identical machine, it gives us even more flexibility.
We have been very happy with the performance and reliability of the machines, as well as the service and support we have received from Turning Technologies.".
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