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Life expectancy for TM2 spindle.

klemchuk

Aluminum
Joined
Dec 30, 2004
Location
Surrey, B. C.
Does anyone know how long my TM2 spindle might last running at 6000 rpm for approximately 90% of the time. Biggest cutter is a 2 1/2 inch face mill, while most of the tools are less than 1/2 inch. All in 6061 T6.
Thanks in advance.
 
Its a grease spindle with vary low power for its size ,,, if you warm it up every time for about 15 min at 1000 RPM I would say 20 years .... I have a fadal spindle that I got 22 years ago and its still going strong and it has WAY more power than the TM machines but its also a grease spindle and 7500 RPM ... I warm it up every time and run it wide open for hours at a time ...

35+ years in the trade and the only spindles I have seen go bad were ran to hard or crashed.
 








 
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