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Vertical Turning Centers Offer Rigidity



GV-1200M

GV-1600M

The Yama Seiki-Goodway GV-1 series vertical turning centers are intended to provide power, strong construction and heavy duty cutting capabilities. The GV-1 Series includes two different models with live turret: GV-1200M and GV-1600M. The GV-1200M and GV-1600M offer maximum turning diameter up to 1,350 mm and 1,800 mm, maximum weight load up to 5,000 kg and 8,000 kg, and available live tooling spindle and CF-axis capabilities. Turning, milling, contour milling and drilling applications may be completed on one machine.

The Yama Seiki-Goodway GV-1 series features a heavily ribbed, thermally balance, bed and column of Meehanite casting. It is designed to withstand stress without deforming and enhanced vibration dampening, according to the company. By using Finite Element Methods (FEM), reinforced ribbings are directly cast into the bed and column structure. The contact surfaces of all slides, spindles and ball screw bearing housings with the machine bed are precision hand scraped to help provide assembly precision, structural rigidity and load distribution.

"The crossrail is mounted with four sets of up/down positioning mechanism providing strong locking positioning at each point which strengthens the overall rigidity of the crossrail and tooling spindle, thus assuring high accuracy for these series," said a company spokesperson. "The rigid crossrail is designed with box-shaped structure to prevent thermal displacement and assure machine stability during turning operations. W-axis travel is up to 800 mm for better machining flexibility. Pretension on all ground ball screws with extra wide ground box ways provide rigidity for heavy-duty cutting. Crossrail can be moved up and down as desired while the column is adopted with the high-low box way design to support the crossrail to minimize structural distortion.

"Instead of using partial belts, Yama Seiki-Goodway GV-1200M and 1600M series use all gears to connect the spindle motor and work table. The standard high-speed ratio, high-torque 2-speed gear box is mated with a 40/6,000i series spindle motor to provide more output for heavy duty cutting. The optional CF-axis and disk brake system available on the GV-1 series provides rigidity for this type of C-axis. It uses a worm gear drive system for high accuracy transmission and easy backlash adjustment. The indexing accuracy is up to 0.001°. Working with the live tooling turret, the CF-axis and disk brake system enables the machine to perform multiple tasks, such as drilling, tapping and milling operations, including cylindrical and polar coordinate interpolations.

"Yama Seiki-Goodway's GV-1 series features rigid vertical turning center construction which can overcome horizontal turning centers' problems when machining large diameter, heavy and non-symmetrical workpieces."

For more information contact:

Yama Seiki USA, Inc.

5788 Schaefer Ave.

Chino, CA 91710

909-628-5568

info@yamaseiki.com

www.yamaseiki.com

SOUTHWEST

TX

Hillary Machinery, Inc.

1825 Summit #207

Plano, TX 75074

800-683-1516

sales@hillaryinc.com

www.hillaryinc.com

OK

Progressive Machine Tools, Inc.

4240 S. 74th East Ave.

Tulsa, OK 74145

918-665-1000

sales@pmt-usa.com

www.pmt-usa.com

AR, LA, NM

Yama Seiki USA

5788 Schaefer Ave.

Chino, CA 91710

888-976-6789

info@yamaseiki.com

www.yamaseiki.com

SOUTHEAST

AL, GA

C&S Machine Tool, LLC

100 Kent Hill Cove

Alabaster, AL 35007

205-378-2606

csmachinetools@gmail.com

www.csmachinetools.com

NC, SC, Eastern TN, VA

A&D Machine Tool Services, Inc.

380 Holloway Rd.

Green Mountain, NC 28740

828-682-0727

adlangan@storefronttech.us

MS, W. TN, FL

Yama Seiki USA

5788 Schaefer Ave.

Chino, CA 91710

888-976-6789

info@yamaseiki.com

www.yamaseiki.com

NORTHEAST

NY

Optipro Systems

6368 Dean Parkway

Ontario, NY 14519

585-265-0160

sales@optipro.com

www.optipro.com

New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)

Brooks Associates, Inc.

300 Longwater Dr.

Norwell, MA 02061

781-871-3400

brooksmachinery@comcast.net

www.brooksmachinery.com

E. PA, S. NJ, MD

Jones Kinden Company

829 Lincoln Ave. Unit 15

West Chester, PA 19380

800-538-7206

jmayer@joneskinden.com

www.joneskinden.com

N. NJ, Western VA, DE

Yama Seiki USA

5788 Schaefer Ave.

Chino, CA 91710

888-976-6789

info@yamaseiki.com

www.yamaseiki.com

MIDWEST

IL, N. IN

Integrated Machinery Systems

101 N. Prospect Ave.

Itasca, IL 60143

630-250-8305

info@imscnc.com

www.imscnc.com

IA, NE

MSD Sales, Inc.

3538 Timber Ridge Trail

Cedar Rapids, IA 52411

319-721-4356

mikedahl@cncmachinetools.biz

www.cncmachinetools.biz

OH

Mega CNC Company

9721 York Alpha Dr.

N. Royalton, OH 44133

440-237-1491

dave@megacnc.com

www.megacnc.com

W. MI

Turn-Key Solutions, Inc.

2716 Courier Ct Suite E

Walker, MI 49534

616-949-9606

greg@turn-keysolutionsinc.com

www.turn-keysolutionsinc.com

MN, W. WI

Concept Machine Tool

15625 Medina Road

Minneapolis, MN 55447

763-559-1975

craigh@conceptmachine.com

www.conceptmachine.com

S. IN, KS, KY, MO, ND, SD, E.WI, E.MI

Yama Seiki USA

5788 Schaefer Ave.

Chino, CA 91710

888-976-6789

info@yamaseiki.com

www.yamaseiki.com

WEST

S. CA

The Machine Group

1630 E. Miraloma Ave.

Placentia, CA 92870

714-778-4142

info@tmgwest.com

www.tmgwest.com

N. CA

Performance Machine Tools

3305 Edison Way

Fremont, CA 94538

510-249-1000

rob@permach.com

www.permach.com

OR, WA

LMI Machinery

970 Industry Drive

Tukwila, WA 98188

866-437-7315

dan@newusedmachines.com

www.lmimachinery.com

AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY

Yama Seiki USA

5788 Schaefer Ave.

Chino, CA 91710

888-976-6789

info@yamaseiki.com

www.yamaseiki.com

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