screw machine

[HTRN]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by IOWOLF:
Yea ,you can be fascinated with them till you have to work on one,Oh and you better invest in Oil dry stock.</font>

Truer words were never spoken.


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[slayer666]

Do you guys know of any screw machine shops near Greenfield, Indiana?

[This message has been edited by slayer666 (edited 08-17-2001).]

[slayer666]

Does anyone know what the smallest screw machine ever commercially manufactured is? Pics?

[Mark McGrath]

Peterman springs to mind as they had a 5mm capacity machine,possibly a smaller version.
Escomatic would be even smaller but worked of coil.Traub,Index,Bechler and Citizen might be candidates.
regards,Mark.

[DR]

I once saw a very old bench top sliding headstock (Swiss) screw machine. It's been so long ago to remember exactly, but I believe it was an Amereican made machine.

Less the motor (line shaft) it looked like something 2 guys could pick up.

This was part of a lobby display of a bolt company.

[tattoomike68]

swiss turning machines will do some realy small work, some have spindles that run 9,000+ rpm.

many screwmachine shops do not care to run stock under 3/16" or 5 mm. so they pass the job on to shops with swiss machines. They tell you to run your wire some place else.

[SGW]

The machines used by J.I.Morris http://www.morris01550.com/ must be pretty dern small, as the largest screw they can make is 2-56.

[HTRN]

I know for a fact that Citizen now makes a CNC swiss machine with a 4mm - I was standing next to it when I went for my B series maintanance certification.

9000 rpm is no big thing - the B5 I ran went to 12K and we used 11K as the default when doing 2 mm stock.


The "thick" one is 3mm


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[slayer666]

The reason I asked is that I am looking for a small screw machine to screw (no pun intended) around with. The reason I need it to be small is that I am very limited in terms of space in my garage. I don't really need one, but would like to have one if I can one small enough.

[slayer666]

DR,

Do you remember what the name of the bolt place is that you mentioned? Are they still in business? Contact info?