#Capto c6 tooling full#

(use one from your machine, as they differ from one machine to the other. CAMFIX stationary toolholders for lathes and multi-tasking machines.

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Check them after a machine has been crashed and take the proper steps to prevent unintentionally making scrap parts.ĬAT / BT / DIN Testbar Tolerance and Accuracy Spindle Runout Testbars are easy to use and they fast way to verify your machine spindle is running properly. Test bars ensure a stable production environment and consistency when moving jobs from one machine to another. The spindle runout test bar can be used to test your CNC machine tools for precise accuracy and proper alignments. The largest causes of excessive tool wear and tool breakage are machine tool spindle runout and excessive slop or axial play. I've applied both ideas here in smaller shops and it works well.CAT / BT / DIN Spindle Test Bar Runout Arbor Steep Taper This is true as well because they are very repeatable when loading/unloading the connection. Someone mentioned about lathe tooling swaps. ISCAR offers standard tools for the three most popular clamping systems used on those machines: HSK A63WH, COROMANT CAPTO (1) 6 and KM63 (2) XMZ (for Mazak integrex machine, can be used on regular adaptation as well).

#Capto c6 tooling full#

Let's say a high dollar custom saw or facemill? Do the trick here as well. These ISCAR milling cutters include the MULTI-MASTER, HELIMILL and the full line of solid carbide endmills. trust me though, it's more 'worry free' in a capto for accuracy. Yes, you can argue that by saying 'just use a ER collet or cheapo sidelock'. even a machine with a capto spindle like some mill/turn machines out there. If you were to mount this on a capto adapter, you can now swap this tool acroos your 40 taper, HSK, 50 taper, a lathe. Now I might buy one head per app but most smaller guys can't afford that. So, say you have a high dollar digital boring head. If this tool was on a capto mount, you now have the option to run it in any machine you want that you have the basic holder for. Effectively, you could have a number of 'special' tools or just simple high dollar tools that you need to run on various machines. To answer Milacron's question on cost advantage from the first post. I think it's more of repeatability issue grinding in high volumes over and over and over again to be marketable. There was no problem of that in the '80s or earlier. They are precise but I don't really think it was a matter of being able to grind one. but Capto is for sure one of my favorites. The investment can be fairly heavy in the beginning but as you build up your 'inventory', what you need down the road for other jobs don't carry the tooling cost anymore. It's like any new system you put into place. Just remember that the initial costs are up front (or 'start up' as we say). Most people/places get real freaked out by the costs of such tooling. but what can't? By far though, the system is the most stable to take 'abuse'. Now the question, 'will a capto break'? Of course. even to the amazement of Sandvik with cuts I'm able to take.

I still like using long 'solid' holders (not talking about side locks here) but I'm not afraid to set up long capto tool either. Couple this connection with 'devibe' bars from Teeness, the cabability of the Capto system is huge from light to HD cutting and all sorts of accuracy ranges to boot. It is a very strong connection type, very accurate and even can solve some harmonic issues (which most modular systems can just by nature of connections). CAPTO.Ĭapto is still licensed by Sandvik but there are plenty of licensed builders including: Walter and Seco (of course), Rego-Fix, BIG (Kaiser, Daishowa), Kennametal, Ingersoll, Nikken, Schunk. I'm sure a lot of you have seen videos I've posted over the years and one thing is evident. Other modular systems just don't compare. Using C8 and even C6 tools on a 50 taper machining centre, the 50 taper is the weakest link.Ĭapto has saved my ass numerous times and has very much been a standard for my tooling selection over more years than I can count. To think that that multi-piece bar, taking that cut, is connected to the turret with a coupling that is barely two inches long, is absolutely amazing to my mind. The boring bar is a C6 bar with a SL coupling head and a C6 extension in a C6 (cam operated draw bar) block mounted on the OD of the turret. It's drilled 225mm deep with a 100mm udrill, then bored out to 240mm for the same depth. I have one production job that I run pretty regularly from 16' 4145H bar. It's useful in a machining centre, by way of allowing you to build a tool tailored for the job at hand with excellent concentricity and rigidity.īut where it really shines is in a lathe, for the reasons that ewlsey gave above, but also for the sheer rigidity (have I used that word enough yet?) it provides. As someone who runs more capto tools than not, in all our machines, here's my take on it.Ĭapto's strengths are rigidity, accuracy, repeatability and torque transmission.