For high-volume production of small, precise motorsports parts, the Syncrex 38/8 Swiss-style machine is built on Mazak’s High Damping Composite Casting (HDCC). The company says the high-rigidity base provides greater vibration-damping characteristics, less thermal growth, longer tool life, and greater part surface capabilities than cast iron.
The Syncrex 38/8 handles bar stock up to 1.5" (38 mm), allowing shops to run full bar capacity with no special bar end preparation. The 8-axis configuration is standard, featuring a 10 hp (7.5 kW) main spindle and a second spindle, as well as four cross-working live tools on the main spindle. Additionally, it includes up to six live tools and a Y-axis for the counter spindle.
The unit features 36 tool positions, and the removable guide bushing adapter enables operators to preset the guide bushing outside the machine. The machine is also considered “convertible” and can quickly and easily be changed over to run in chucker/non-guide brushing mode, to efficiently run shorter non-traditional parts that would normally run in a fixed headstock lathe, which improves shop output.
The Syncrex 38/8 includes the new Mazatrol SmoothSt control with a full mechanical keyboard. The optional Mazak Swiss Setup Assist (MSSA) provides fast and easy job setup capabilities, while the optional Mazak Dynamic Chip Control (MDCC) functionality increases chip-management performance.
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- brushing
brushing
Generic term for a curve whose shape is controlled by a combination of its control points and knots (parameter values). The placement of the control points is controlled by an application-specific combination of order, tangency constraints and curvature requirements. See NURBS, nonuniform rational B-splines.
- bushing
bushing
Cylindrical sleeve, typically made from high-grade tool steel, inserted into a jig fixture to guide cutting tools. There are three main types: renewable, used in liners that in turn are installed in the jig; press-fit, installed directly in the jig for short production runs; and liner (or master), installed permanently in a jig to receive renewable bushing.
- lathe
lathe
Turning machine capable of sawing, milling, grinding, gear-cutting, drilling, reaming, boring, threading, facing, chamfering, grooving, knurling, spinning, parting, necking, taper-cutting, and cam- and eccentric-cutting, as well as step- and straight-turning. Comes in a variety of forms, ranging from manual to semiautomatic to fully automatic, with major types being engine lathes, turning and contouring lathes, turret lathes and numerical-control lathes. The engine lathe consists of a headstock and spindle, tailstock, bed, carriage (complete with apron) and cross slides. Features include gear- (speed) and feed-selector levers, toolpost, compound rest, lead screw and reversing lead screw, threading dial and rapid-traverse lever. Special lathe types include through-the-spindle, camshaft and crankshaft, brake drum and rotor, spinning and gun-barrel machines. Toolroom and bench lathes are used for precision work; the former for tool-and-die work and similar tasks, the latter for small workpieces (instruments, watches), normally without a power feed. Models are typically designated according to their “swing,” or the largest-diameter workpiece that can be rotated; bed length, or the distance between centers; and horsepower generated. See turning machine.
