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We have always considered investment in the business to be crucial to it's on going viability and success. Our initial purchase of our dedicated factory unit was in our view critical to give stability to the business and this has been followed up with investment in our equipment, most important the CNC machining and turning centres which are vital to the cost effective and accurate production of the parts that make up the kits. Most of our machines have been purchased new in the last 4 years and we are pleased to announce that we are now making a significant upgrade by replacing our oldest turning machine the Haas TL15 with a brand new Doosan Puma 2500 SY . A cutting demo on this machine can be viewed here on you tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbjW9okW_GE
The machine will allow us to make a quantum leap improvement in quality and automation on a wide range of turned and milled components.

We are hoping to take delivery of the machine before the Open Day/s and if this is achieved we will have the machine runing demonstration programmes at the event.

Mark and Gill
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Congratulations Mark, that is an impressive machine!


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Post by Sarah Frazer »

Hi Mark,

So cool !!!

I saw machining like this at Uni, it's scary to see so much material being removed at one time.

Nice toy to have, hope you have lots of fun.


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Post by Adrian Harris »

Blimey, that doesn't make chips, it creates shrapnel :!: :!:

Well done on getting a new toy for yourself for a change :lol: :lol:

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WOW 8)

Very nice, thats nearly as fast as Clive :lol: :lol: :lol:

Very nice bit of kit.

Richie :wink:
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Post by Brian Leach »

Mark,

We know what our toys are,
now we know what your toys are!

Nice!

Brian
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Wow, That's a cool Demo!
? Was that program hard to set up???
The computers are user friendy in the new CNC Machines today.
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Post by Steven Ford »

Fascinating.

Why did only one operation use a coolant/lubricant?

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Hi

This video is a demo that was done by a company that specialises it writing programs and sorting out tooling for companies that do not have the experience to do it for themselves. It demonstrates all the different capabilities of the machine. Our machine should be here in about ten days.

The coolant is off so that you can see what is happening. Normally it would be on all the time. They turn it on for the "parting off" operation because the tool would break without it.

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Post by Sven Strobbe »

Mark

That is a very cool machine...
With or without coolant...

Question now is what are you going to do with the older machine...

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nice to read some positive business news for a change,watch mr cameron dosn't pay you a visit to claim its all down to him and his tax breaks for small business, well done simon manning.
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Mark,
You've got some very nice machines!
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Post by Armortek »

Sven

The older machine is being sold in part exchange for the new one, which will take its position in the factory.

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Gill

Thanks for the quick reply...

Not long anymore till we'll meet again...
Can't wait...

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Post by Rick Jensen »

Hi Mark and Gill

Does this mean we can expect 1/2 scale toys to play with in the future? Or even better 1 to 1 scale? Gill remember the bit about packing and freight we were talking about.................................well forget it.

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