Canadian Industrial Machinery

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STAMA America—Booth S-8966

While twin-spindle machining needs to double the capacity of the tool magazine, the four-spindle system requires a tool magazine to handle four times as many tools as normal. The new MC 531/TWIN² is equipped with 56 tool places in the standard version, and has options for magazines up to 120 tools.

One major key in four-spindle machining, with short tool-to-part contact times, is the load and unload sequences of the workpieces. In such cases, as long as the machine isn’t equipped with a quick automatic loading/un-loading system, pendulum machining is more advisable. This ensures parallel machining time while loading new workpieces. Time for loading and unloading can then be as long as the actual cycle time of the machine. This will also result in less time that the operator is interacting with the machine, thereby allowing the operator to run multiple stations in a workcell setup, while keeping a constant touch time protocol on each machine.

For more information, visit www.stama-america.com.

L.S. Starrett Co.—Booths E-5403
and N-7210

The patented 649 series spindle square is now available for tramming the head of a vertical milling machine. Tramming must be done regularly to ensure squareness and perpendicularity between the spindle and work surface.

This spindle square comes fully assembled with two AGD Group 2 dial indicators. It has a solid-steel body construction and a ground gauging surface.

After setting the spindle square indicators to zero on a surface plate, the operator places the spindle square into the collet of the milling machine. The head is brought down to the table until both indicator needles have rotated approximately one full rotation. The needles do not need to point in the same direction. Identical numeric readings, not the needle positions, indicate squareness. Normal tramming procedures are used until both indicators read the same numeric value. The same procedure is repeated for the Y axis after the X axis is set.

For more information, visit www.starrett.com.

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