Automatic Screw Machines

[NightWing]

Anybody here have experience on multi-spindle automatics?

Cones
Acmes
New Britains
Greenlees
Wickmans
Gildemeisters
Warner and Swazeys
Davenports

 

[Bill Gruby]

30 years worth. What would you like to know? Acme and New Britain. I still have the Acme Manual.

"Billy G"

 

[NightWing]

30 years worth. What would you like to know? Acme and New Britain. I still have the Acme Manual.

"Billy G"

Actually, I was a field service engineer for 10 years on Conomatics and 8 more years as Service Manager. Then I had my own production shop using Cones for 22 years. I was just curious if anyone else here had ever run or worked on multis.

 

[Bill Gruby]

The 10 inch Acme was fun. :lmao::lmao: ! 5/8 - 8 triple cut offs were a nightmare. Then there was threading, oh yeah I remember those days. :lmao:

"Billy G"

 

[Bill Gruby]

Here ya go. :lmao: I forgot I had the old (brown) manual to. I just couldn't toss them. :lmao:

"Billy G"

 

[w9jbc]

a little Brown and Sharpe, National Acme and New Britain, though I have been away from them for a lot of years now

 

[w9jbc]

we had a job we ran on an 1-5/8 rb 8 that we used to cut parts off one side, until we decided we could be cutting them off of both sides. I doubt they cut the price on them any but ill bet profits went up. two parts each machine cycle had to boost the profit margin!

 

[Bill Gruby]

Our R8s were triple cut offs. They made spacers from thin wall tubing. They had an expander tool to increase the OD and ID. Cycle time was 11 seconds. 8000+ in an 8 hour shift.

"Billy G"

 

[w9jbc]

these were a bushing made from 1" D shaped stock, it made the reel stand rattle and the floor shake. I don't remember the cycle time, I do know they were used in the hvac trades as a part of a control arm.