I recently acquired this machine locally. I cannot find anything like a maker's mark. It appears well made, it's in excellent condition. Came with the vertical head, high speed vertical head and slotting head. Serial numbers of them all match.
2 tables, the all angle one and a heavy duty box table. I mounted the angle table but it costs 75mm of Z axis so unless I need it I'll put the box table back on as the machine is not over-endowed with Z travel (or X, or Y come to that). Table sizes are 620 x 275 (roughly) for the angle table and 620 x 300 for the fixed box table.
Horizontal and vertical spindle are 40 taper. Came with a fair amount of tooling, mainly external buttress thread form so I assume Deckel type. Some tools with internal thread, haven't checked to see if it's metric or imperial, don't really care as I already have both for another machine. The high speed head came with small collets from 1mm to 12mm.
Came with 16mm, 22mm, 27mm and 32mm horizontal arbors but no 1" arbor. Guess what all my horizontal mill cutter bores are??? So I'll need to get or make one of those.
The PO swapped the 3 phase 2 speed motor for a single speed one driven via a VFD and tossed out the original motor. That was unfortunate as I have 415V 3 phase power but - things are as they are.
So - can anyone enlighten me as to where it was made or other interesting titbits of information? Any tricks to taking the vertical head off? Getting the horizontal drawbar out? Etc.
PDW
2 tables, the all angle one and a heavy duty box table. I mounted the angle table but it costs 75mm of Z axis so unless I need it I'll put the box table back on as the machine is not over-endowed with Z travel (or X, or Y come to that). Table sizes are 620 x 275 (roughly) for the angle table and 620 x 300 for the fixed box table.
Horizontal and vertical spindle are 40 taper. Came with a fair amount of tooling, mainly external buttress thread form so I assume Deckel type. Some tools with internal thread, haven't checked to see if it's metric or imperial, don't really care as I already have both for another machine. The high speed head came with small collets from 1mm to 12mm.
Came with 16mm, 22mm, 27mm and 32mm horizontal arbors but no 1" arbor. Guess what all my horizontal mill cutter bores are??? So I'll need to get or make one of those.
The PO swapped the 3 phase 2 speed motor for a single speed one driven via a VFD and tossed out the original motor. That was unfortunate as I have 415V 3 phase power but - things are as they are.
So - can anyone enlighten me as to where it was made or other interesting titbits of information? Any tricks to taking the vertical head off? Getting the horizontal drawbar out? Etc.
PDW