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HT Quick Change System
Speeds tool-change and productivity on Mill Turn Centres
The rapid growth of the installation and use of Mill Turn Centres over the last few years, has substantially increased productivity and reduced floor to floor times, or second operation machining, on a wide range of components and products in the Aerospace, Medical, Autosport, and other precision engineering sectors.
Cutting Tools
held in the driven heads used on Mill Turn machines have, from the introduction
of such machines,
usually been held in ER type collet adaptors for accuracy. Whilst this met the requirements of accuracy, it did mean a relatively slow exchange or replacement of the cutting tool when cutter wear etc required it. Often, it also meant that the complete driven tool had to be removed from the machine turret, especially if ‘off machine’ tool pre-setting had to be carried out.
Heimatec, the well-known producers of high precision driven tools for a wide range of Mill Turn Centres, have overcome this requirement and introduced the Heimatec HT system with the following advantages and benefits: · Tool change in just a few seconds, without removing the driven tool from the machine turret · Precision tool pre-setting off the machine · Repeatability of toolchange, maximum 0,005mm · Internal, external, or combined coolant facilities · Top quality stiffness – resulting from simultaneous shaft and face contact · Toolholding of cutters, uses the HT rapid change adaptors with options of collet chuck, Weldon, combi shell mill fittings, shrink chucks, indexable insert holders, toolholders with KM fittings etc, according to the machine users cutter holding needs. · Fixed block toolholder · An added benefit of the HT system is that it is also available for machines having ‘fixed block’ type toolholding on the machine turret.
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PCM Tooling (UK) Ltd, are pleased to announce Heimatec’s
