Milling machines and lathes sold off stand
Exhibitor at the UK’s MACH 2008 exhibition reported selling two turret millers and and two high-speed toolroom lathes within hours of the show opening.
Gate Machinery International reported that it had sold machines sold off its stand at the UK’s MACH 2008 machine tool show within hours of the show opening The machine tools included two PBM-2000 turret millers and a pair of G-330E high-speed toolroom lathes All four machines were equipped with Anilam Wizard 411 digital read out (DRO) systems.
Derby, UK-based technical training company, Training Services 2000, had bought the four machine tools based on quality, specification and price.
Also sold from the stand by Gate on the first day was a Gate-Eclipse ECM 3 CNC miller fitted with Acu-Rite MillPwr system. More machine tools were sold later Anilam and Acu-Rite DRO and CNC systems.
According to Gate’s managing director Alain Fidelia, an unrivalled mix of machining capabilities at market-beating price tags enable these machines to appeal to companies across all industry sectors.
Buyers appreciated the 3HP, 60 to 4,200 rev/min spindle capabilities of the PBM milling machines, and the 80 to 2,000 rev/min G-330E lathe.
The G-330E has a swing over the bed of 330mm, over the cross-slide of 195mm and a distance between centres of 1000mm.
Gate told manufacturingtalk that price-to-performance affordability of the machine tools was conmtributed to by the Anilam 411 DRO.
The DRO is a 1-/2-/3-axis ‘entry-level’ system that has a powerful functionality, substantial technical service back-up and three-year warranty, in spite of its low-cost price tag.
* Functionality – the Wizard 411 DRO has standard functionality embracing tool offsets, sub-datums, linear patterns (row, frame, array), PCD calculations (full and partial) and vectoring.
The unit is housed in a very reliable all diecast constructed housing.
It includes an LCD screen (the only DRO available using this technology, said Gate) plus sealed membrane keypad and powerful canned functions for incline, arc, rectangular frame and rectangular pocket routines.
* Acu-Rite MillPwr CNC – the Acu-Rite MillPwr CNC is said to be one of the most user-friendly systems available.
It is a conversational system requiring no previous CNC experience.
It can be used either as a full-function DRO or as a programmable CNC.
MillPwr offers easy-to-understand operator feedback and everything expected in terms of functionality – from bolt hole/PCD cycles, rectangular, circle pocket and irregular pocket milling, to island and boss features, spiral, ellipse, mirror image, rotate, repeat set-up and 2D/2.5D contouring as well as tool library, shrinkage scaling, trig and geometry calculator and power editing tools.