garyhlucas
Stainless
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2013
- Location
- New Jersey
I've been wating quite a while to show this. It is a lathe that auto-loads polypropylene pipe right from the cutoff saw at the end of an extrusion line. It puts a groove on both ends of the pipe and cut to length and chamfers both ends. Then in brings in a new pipe as it unloads the finished one. The vacuum collection system works but we don't have a vac big enough, but the customer does.
Currently operating about twice the speed of a human operator on the old machine and produces a far superior header pipe. Makes 4 different lengths at the push of a button. Other sizes by changing the collets, a five minute job. These get drilled with a whole row of holes then thermal welded to tubular panels to make solar hot water collectors.
This machine is going to my previous employer. I did 100% of the mechanical design, electrical design, and most of the PLC programming. The rest of the programming was done by the college student I've been training.
Currently operating about twice the speed of a human operator on the old machine and produces a far superior header pipe. Makes 4 different lengths at the push of a button. Other sizes by changing the collets, a five minute job. These get drilled with a whole row of holes then thermal welded to tubular panels to make solar hot water collectors.
This machine is going to my previous employer. I did 100% of the mechanical design, electrical design, and most of the PLC programming. The rest of the programming was done by the college student I've been training.
