Hamar Laser Introduces Next-Generation Spindle Alignment Lasers

Hamar Laser introduces two new alignment lasers for highly accurate and fast alignment of lathes, turning centers and other machinery. Compact and versatile, the company’s new L-702 and L-702SP Spindle Alignment Lasers are designed to help manufacturing plants cut costs and boost productivity. Hamar will demonstrate these and their other highly accurate machining center alignment lasers at IMTS 2018, booth# 135436.

• The L-702 Spindle Alignment Laser is a straight-line laser for spindle alignments in lathes, turning centers, OD grinders, slant-bed lathes and transfer-line and rotary-dial machines.
• The L-702SP Spindle Alignment Laser with Scan Plane adds a perpendicular scan plane to the L-702 spindle laser beam for checking cross-slide, turret axis squareness and other milling axes in multi-axis, mill-turn machines.

“We wanted to add a compact squareness-checking capability to our spindle lasers, so we redesigned our field-tested L-700 Spindle Laser and brought out the L-702 and L-702SP Spindle Lasers,” said Rod Hamar, president of Hamar Laser. “For 20 years, our spindle lasers have helped customers reduce tooling costs and scrap rates, while reducing downtime to increase throughput. Remarkably easy to use and highly accurate, they are up to 70 percent faster than traditional methods.”

The L-702 and L-702SP are inserted into spindle chucks and aligned to the spindle’s rotation axis using our T-261 4-Axis Target. Then the lathe-bed straightness and parallelism to the headstock are checked. Add in the L-702SP’s perpendicular scan plane and our A-1519-2.4ZB Wireless Target and the cross-slide, turret or milling axes can be checked for squareness or parallelism. The data is sent to our Lathe9 Software for recording and analysis with a very high measurement resolution of 0.000001 in. (0.00025 mm). The L-702SP can also be used to check machine-bed guideway flatness/leveling with the addition of our mag base fixture.