Compact grinder with large table
March 1st 2009 Kevin Hibbert, director and
co-owner of M.H.V. Products,
says he decided to buy a
surface grinder from XYZ
Machine Tools because for
one particular contract he
needed a relatively large table
on a relatively compact
machine.
The order that prompted
the installation of the XYZ
1224 hydraulic surface grinder
involved the machining of
two-inch-thick steel plates
700mm long by 300mm wide.
Machining had to be
extremely accurate in terms of
final thickness and parallelism
as the plates were intended for
machines that punch the
centre holes in 'master' CDs.
However, they were too big to
grind on the company's
existing surface grinder.
The XYZ 1224 has a
footprint of just 3550 by
2550mm and is supplied as
standard with a permanent or
electromagnetic chuck, dust
extraction and flood coolant,
as well as power rise and fall
to the wheelhead. Available
options include automatic
incremental downfeed,
overhead wheel dresser and
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