The heart of the design is flexibility. Our intent is to develop a cell that will produce a variety of product forms and fit in a manufacturing system with other cells. The cell that will satisfy these needs is complex ...

TOOL GRINDING The Versa-Mil mounted on the compound rest of a lathe will duplicate the full range of tool and cutter grinding offered by conventional tool grinders. For successful results, the lathe should be in excellent operating condition and preferably small ...

SETUP The Versa-Mil adds important machining functions to a lathe. With built-in power and vertical feed, it adds a third machining dimension, allowing the operator to mill, drill, bore, slot, shape, grind, and perform other special operations. The success of any ...

VERSA-MIL BASIC UNIT The Versa-Mil basic unit Figure 1 has a powered machining head which moves vertically on four hardened ground guide posts by means of a precision-ground lead screw calibrated to 0.001 inch. Thirteen different speeds are available to the ...

GENERAL DESCRIPTION The milling-grinding-drilling and slotting attachment is commonly referred to as a Versa-Mil. It is a compact, portable unit capable of doing many machining operations that normally require expensive single-purpose machines. With the different attachments that are available with the unit, ...

SAWING AND PARTING Metal slitting saw milling cutters are used to part stock on a milling machine. Figure 1 illustrates parting solid stock. The workpiece is being fed against the rotation of the cutter. For greater rigidity while parting thin material ...

PLAIN MILLING General Plain milling, also called surface milling or slab milling, is milling flat surfaces with the milling cutter axis parallel to the surface being milled. Generally, plain milling is done with the workpiece surface mounted parallel to the surface of ...