Machining centers built to withstand the heaviest of today's cutting conditions.
These machines have been designed with very large heavy-duty, hardened and ground boxways on all 3 axes which allows these Vcenters to absorb most any cutting forces. The Meehanite cast columns, saddles, headstocks and beds have all been reinforced with computer analyzed ribs to guarantee better damping and rigidity properties. These rugged machining centers have been tested and proved to make light work out of some of the toughest machining materials, so let a Vcenter tackle your roughest jobs.
Standard features:- Heavy duty spindle roller bearings
- Bonded with low friction composite Turcite B
- Tool changes of 2.5~3 seconds
- All boxways with constant forced lubrication
- 2 speed gearbox for high torques at low rpm
- 3 axis box slideway.
- Heavy duty spindle
- The spindle is supported with heavy duty roller bearings with large contact areas that easily handles large axial and radial loads, while computer modeling helps determine bearing locations for maximum spindle stiffness.
- The 2-speed gearbox coupled with powerful spindle motor offers unrivaled metal removal rates. Oil cooling to the spindle and gearbox maintain low bearing temperature for extended spindle life.
- Efficient tool changer
- Twin arm type ATC with 24 tool disk magazine performs better overall continuous tool changes compared with disc type tool changer, while at the same time offering faster tool change: merely 3 seconds with BT-50 tooling.
- Victor's PLC design allows tools to be exchanged with oversized tools in a single time – no need to waste time with 2 separate tool changes.
- Optional 30 or 40 tool magazine are available.
- Spindle oil cooler (standard)
- While the spindle structure is built for maximum rigidity, it is also necessary to ensure maximum reliability and long bearing life.
- Cooling oil constantly circulates around the spindle cartridge to maintain the low temperature during the spindle rotation.
- Precision machine alignment
- The traditional method of handscraping remains the most effective way of ensuring squareness and flatness in machine tools using plain bearing linear ways.
- With over 40 years experience in building machine tools using this traditional manufacturing manner, our understanding of the critical factors that ensure accuracy and durability are second to none. Highly skill personnel, trained in-house, are employed to make sure this handscraping is done to perfection.
- Ball bar testing is used to verify machine accuracy in circular interpolation.
- Minimizing the effects of thermal growth
- Symmetrical design and construction means heat generation is limited to minimize the effects of thermal growth on machine accuracies. Double-anchored ballscrews are pretensioned during assemble to absorb heat with minimal thermal growth.
- Effective chip evacuation from the machining area improves heat dissipation from the working area, while spindle oil cooling prevents excessive spindle growth.
- Boc slideway for optimal dynamic stiffness
- The box slideways are cast into the machine so no distortion occurs due to thermal differences between the slide-ways and machine casting! This maintains alignment of the ways throughout the machine life.
- The plain bearings with large contact areas increase the dynamic stiffness and damping properties so the machine can handle high cutting feeds and heavier cuts.
- Forced lubrication and bonded Turcite-B further improves performance by eliminating stick slip characteristics normally inherent in plain bearings.
- Strong machine structure
- Machine bed and saddle feature triangular cast structure to evenly distribute the machine loading, while cross diagonal ribbing in the column minimizes distortion and twisting during operation.
- All major structural components are made from Meehanite cast iron to ensure consistent homogenous casting.
- Especially 4 box slideways used on the Y-axis eliminate table overhang and stabilize machine performance.
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