William Ward
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2003
- Location
- Upland, California,USA
Who is making new hydraulic or semi-auto surface grinders in the 6x12 or 8x18 size? This is for a toolroom supporting MIM molding, Plastic molding, progressive dies and assembly for orthodontic appliances. Most of our work is either D2, CPM10V or carbide.
We have 6 Mitsui manual 6x12's with the fine feed (.00005 per div.) on both cross and down feed and a 12x24 semi-auto Okamoto. The Okamoto is overkill for a lot of what we do and if we could let the grinder do the work on smaller jobs and save the manual machines for the really fine splitting tenths work it would help us get more work out the door.
We have 6 Mitsui manual 6x12's with the fine feed (.00005 per div.) on both cross and down feed and a 12x24 semi-auto Okamoto. The Okamoto is overkill for a lot of what we do and if we could let the grinder do the work on smaller jobs and save the manual machines for the really fine splitting tenths work it would help us get more work out the door.
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