Ajv 35/60

My son has done a deal on one of these with a M32 control,I had a quick look at it yesterday and it seems ok but would have preferred the same style of toolchange as the VQC we have.It has the system and parameter discs and a full set of manuals.It came out of an aerospace factory and appears to have been looked after although its just as it stopped production,covered in cuttings.
I was surprised to see a machine that size using linear guides.Was this a cost cutting exercise by Mazak or a way to get higher traverse rates?
Do the slides work ok as opposed to a boxway machine?
Anyone got anything good or bad to say about them?
It's a 3150 rpm or thereabouts spindle.

No tooling with it but I picked up 100 new and nearly new CAT50 TG100 collet chucks and sidelock holders last week for about $800

AJV's are solid machines. We've got 2x 15's (i think, 40 taper) 1991, 1992 with the M32. Very, very few problems with them and they've ran almost every day in our prototype shop since they were new.

Tonytn36 said:

AJV's are solid machines. We've got 2x 15's (i think, 40 taper) 1991, 1992 with the M32. Very, very few problems with them and they've ran almost every day in our prototype shop since they were new.

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Thank you.Sounds very promising.

Sound like a great deal,

But were did you find the tool holders ?

That was a good find , about 100 holder for $800 , that's about $8 each.

Looking for some 40's , doesn't matter ( Cat or BT )


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