Turning Center Enables Smooth, Heavy-Duty Cutting
MC Machinery’s LT-350 turning center is capable of machining hard materials for a range of applications.
MC Machinery’s LT-350 turning center is capable of machining hard materials for a range of applications. The full-enclosure, FC30 Meehanite cast-iron design features a 30-degree slant bed for better support to the spindle head, turret and tailstock with low gravity. High-precision linear guideways and a rigid, servo-driven turret enable rapid travel speeds and smooth, heavy-duty cutting. The Mitsubishi M70V Series control includes a 64-bit RISC processing unit with high-speed fiber optic backplane. This feature enables program look-ahead of 337 blocks and 33,700-bpm processing.
The company also displays its DV-1000 milling center, Mitsubishi EA8S Advance sinker EDM, MV2400-R wire EDM and Lumex Avance-25 metal laser sintering hybrid milling machine.
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