Water Jet Pipe Cutting Machine


International Water Jet’s new WPC series pipe cutting machine is a versatile water jet system. As an example This system uses high pressure water jet for cutting composite material pipes that are not suitable by other types of cutting methods. This WPC is system can be used to cut pipes of various materials.

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The machine system consists of a 50 k high pressure water pump, a cutting table (which will vary in size depending on pipe to be processed) with water jet cutting head and abrasive feeding system. The pump requires 3 phase electricity power supply of 220V — 480V, 50 or 60 Hz, (specified by the customer). The pressurized water is fed to the cutting head through a high pressure whip tubing. The water jet pump is 50 hp and when cutting with abrasive, the max thickness of mild steel is 60mm.

The cutting table can rotate the pipe when cutting. The rotation speed is adjustable to suit various cutting speed needs due to different wall thickness and type of the materials. Position of the cutting head is also adjustable to fit different diameters of the pipe. The cutting head can slide along the length of the table to choose desired cutting position. There is an abrasive hopper mounted on the same rail of the cutting head for feeding abrasive to the cutting head. Customer should specify the weight of the pipe when order the machine.

The wall thickness of pipe that can be cut depends on the type of material. Cutting speed also depends on the type of the material. Some materials may require adding abrasive to enable the cutting.

Special tracks can be ordered to cut different shapes of holes into the pipe wall instead of cutting off the pipe.

International water jet is a leader in manufacturing solutions.

More Than Just A Spindle Repair Company.

The other day we were contacted by a long time customer that required a Mori Seiki SH-50 Horizontal 10,000 RPM spindle repair. They were looking for a company that could not only rebuild the spindle but also provide a complete service call, including the removal and reinstallation of the spindle. TD Spindle repair stepped up to the plate with its 15 plus years of CNC machine tools repair experience.

This job was on the challenging side because the machine had crashed and the pallet changer clamps that lock the pallet to the rotary were all snapped in half. It was compounded by the customer’s inability to remove the spindle on their own. Service Manager, William Janes, implemented a plan that would take several hours but would remove the spindle without the use of the rotary table to pull the spindle out. Mel and I personally went out to oversee the project. As usual, William was right with the plan he came up with. William leaned on his many years of machine tool repair experience to remove this four foot monster of a spindle that clearly weighed over 500 pounds.

Now that the spindle has been completely removed, TD Spindle Repair can now begin to repair and rebuild it. TD Spindle repair offers this service to all our customers in Southern California. This makes TD Spindle Repair a unique player in the spindle repair and rebuild business.

Travis Janes

CNC Maintenance Programs – Increase the Life of any CNC Milling Machine

TD Machine Tools recommends a CNC maintenance contract to keep your CNC milling and turning equipment in top working order.

A comprehensive cnc maintenance program consists of:

1)    Complete chip removal; inside and out.

2)   ATC Inspection:

  • Alignment and orientation verification
  • ATC Motor Brake Adjustment
  • Switch verification
  • Inspection of all ATC wires and Connections

3)   Spindle Inspection:

  • Spindle Alignment at 10 inches
  • TIR at 10 inches
  • Lateral Slope Test
  • Drawbar Retention Test
  • Confirmation of the Spindle Chiller working properly
  • Replace spindle chiller oil (All oils to be supplied by customer.)
  • Spindle Belt Inspection

4)   Lubrication Inspection:

  • Oil reservoir drain /clean (All oils to be supplied by customer.)
  • All fittings checked
  • All oil lines inspected

5)   Verification of proper operation all switches

6)   Level Machine and Sweep spindle

7)   Ballbar Test

When having a CNC machine maintained you can expect to schedule a day of down time.  It is required for a safe and proper machine inspection. All silicon will require 24 hours to dry properly, anyway.

Are you interested in scheduling TD Machine Tools to maintain your CNC equipment?

Our CNC maintenance program comes complete with a detailed report of all required parts and labor to bring your CNC back within factory tolerance.

Contact – TD Machine Tools

KSI Swiss

KSI stands for Knowledge, Support, and Integrity. As a family owned company, we pride ourselves in offering the most complete machine tool package to our customers. As you know, that never just involves the machine tool, but also the support, training, and other value adds that are associated with the machine tool purchase.

KSI Swiss provides the highest quality world-class Swiss Style Automatic CNC Lathes that can be offered. KSI Swiss, in partnership with machine tool builder HJM Automation, is the only American owned provider of this type of machine tool. KSI is a family operated company located in Minnesota. You will not find a better value anywhere. The KSI Swiss machines are known for their ‘more’ factor, more mass, more rigidity, more tools, more stroke, more thrust, more gripping force, more included options, more training, more room, etc. We’re constantly striving to improve our products, as well as add new products as demand rises.

KSI Swiss is known for bringing the most machine to the market. More mass, more stroke, more horsepower, more live tools, more standard options, more training, more of what your business needs.

At KSI Swiss, we know that there is more to a successful swiss machining operation than just machine operation and machine functionality. Coming from and end user perspective, we know the value of operator training, local service, and ongoing support.

KSI offers three classes: “KSI Basic Operator Training,” “KSI Intermediate Training,” and “KSI Advanced Training.” KSI School’s goal is to equip our customers in the utilization and optimization of our products, as well as other swiss style lathes. Our goal is total commitment to customer service and satisfaction. These classes are offered to our customers who have purchased SQC, SQX, and SM series machines from KSI at $250 off the class rate. Rates are listed below.

YuTube channel for videos of our machines.

http://www.youtube.com/ksiswiss

The Milltronic CNC Control – Take Control of your CNC Machine

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Take Control of your CNC Machine

The Milltronics CNC control blends ease of use with features and performance demanded by the most sophisticated workshops. New operators can be quickly trained and productive in no time with Conversational programming, on screen help, intuitive menus, color graphics, prompted tool setting routines and more. A unique and powerful “Trig Help” feature even eliminates need for shop floor calculations. Sophisticated workshops will welcome the 1 ms processing speed, 255 move look ahead, networking capability, large program storage, memory card readers, probing cycles and industry standard G & M code format.

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High powered and easy to use.

Features

  • 1 ms block speed
  • 12 MB program storage
  • 12? color screen and graphics
  • “Trig Help” function
  • Up to five axes
  • DXF importation
  • Network capability
  • Memory card reader
  • Conversational programming
  • Concurrent programming
  • Handwheel run verify
  • Industry compatible EIA/ISO G & M code format