The Mectron MCH481B is a three-axis horizontal machining center with two direct-drive spindles that handle six-side machining on parts up to 3 inches. It holds six to eight bars, cuts parts with an onboard saw, and can spin up to 3000 RPM for both milling and turning operations.
I'd like to talk to you this morning about the Mektron MCH 481B. It's a very unique machine. It's a three, three axis horizontal with actually two additional DD drives that are going to allow for six side machining. So start. Let's start over here with this. So the machine is basically 3 inch bar capacity. So it's a bar feeding machine. And the bar feeder goes right here is where and the outfeed conveyor for the finished parts will come up over there. Now we include with the machine, the bar feeder and the outfeed conveyor. It's not here at the moment, but it sits right here and it feeds directly into that DD drive. So I'll explain a little bit about how that works. So again, 3 inch bar capacity. Here's a kind of a sample shorter bar, but they're three feet of bar. So what you do is you cut the parts, you cut your bar into 3ft lengths and again as I mentioned, up up to 3 inch bar capacity. Now you see that one drive there. So essentially what we're doing is that drive will swing all the way around in line with this and the bar feeder feeds in here and the bars are kind of put directly into that first DD drive. Now that drive will encapsulate the entire three feet of bar. So you basically cut your bars in three feet lengths and the bar feeder will hold about six to eight bars and, and it basically feeds it and then it drives it directly into that DD drive which as I mentioned you'll see in a moment will swing over here and actually be able to feed the bar directly in and that will swing three feet of bar. So let's walk around to the front now. So you can see here, it's a 3 AIs horizontal and it's got two DB drives in there. So those are direct drive drives. They, they are full360,000 index position. They'll also turn at 3000 RPM, which actually allows for turning. So not only can you do six side machining with this part with this machine, but you can also do turning. And the way we do that is that we actually put a turning tool in the spindle and then we lock the spindle down so that we can be doing turning. So you see now how the DD drive came over there. That's the position that we, the bar is loaded into that drive and you can see where it'll swing all the way over now and it swings at any particular position along it went to 90 there. But it'll actually go anywhere along the way. So you can do odd holes or angle holes and so on. Let me show you a part here real quick that we did for a customer. So you can see here, here's look at all the multiple sides and different angle holes that we did on this particular part. This is actually a customer's part that bought the machine. Again, six side machining complete with this machine. Now again, so the first side machining would be done on that first drive. And then what happens is all the first side machining is done. What we do then is that there's a cutoff saw that is in the tool changer. Up to 40 tools by the way is capable on the machine. Now you actually can cut half of it, index cut the other half. And then this second drive will actually come over and grab the part off of the first drive, pull it back and now you can do all of this backside machining on the part. And again, this drive actually is two axis where it moves in this direction and moves in that direction as well. Allowing you to do six sides of the part. Again with 3000 rpm turning is. Is part of a machine. Includes a tool presetter. You can see the tool presetter there, the finished parts. You can see that over there. You can see that pick and place unit there. Well, it'll take the part right off of the first, the second drive and it'll take it. And the finished parts will come out on this machining center or this outfeed conveyor right here. Again, this is the MCH41. All made in Japan. Japan.
