The capacity to meet every need
Our Equipment and Machinery
Our Leeds factory is fully equipped to handle every stage of the production process.
From prototype design and testing through to efficient and timely despatch, here is a comprehensive list of the equipment and machinery we currently have in use.
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Turning
- 1- Hardinge GS51 - CNC Lathe
- 1- Citizen L20 VIII Sliding head Mill/Turn - 4m bar loader.
- 1 - Miyano BNJ 42 S 6 axis with live tooling CNC - Fanuc control - Iemca Boss 545 3m bar loader.
- 1 - Hardinge Cobra 42 CNC - Fanuc control - 1.5m Hydrafeed bar loader also with a mini magazine loader attached.
- 1 - Harrison M300 1000mm bed centre lathe with digital readout.
- 1 - Harrison M300 650mm bed centre lathe with digital readout.
Multi-spindle
- 4 - 1" Alfred Herbert 6 spindle BRANs.
- 4 - 1" Alfred Herbert converted to direct electronic drive with Pietro Cucchi bar loader.
- 30 - 7/16" Acme Gridley 6 spindle converted to Direct Electronic drive.
Milling
- 2 - Bridgeport XY CNC milling machines.
- 1 - XYZ CNC milling machine.
Grinding
- 2 - Jones and Shipman 540x digital interface auto dress surface grinders.
- 1 - Jones and Shipman 1300x universal cylindrical grinder with mounted Diaform and digital interface.
- 1 - Jones and Shipman 1311 cylindrical grinder.
Drilling
- 6 - Rotary drilling (3 with tapping).
- 1 - Radial arm driller.
- 2 - Floor mounted drillers.
- 2 - Bench mounted drillers.
Tapping
- 1 - Microtap G8
- 1 - Microtap - fully automatic with bowl and hopper
- 1 - Maxion G16 - fully automatic with bowl and hopper
Presses
- 6 - 7.5T 8 station hydraulic rotary Hare presses.
- 1 - 7.6T single station hydraulic Hare press.
Spring Making
- 8 - Bennett Mahler single point spring machines with digital speed control powered spool and auto pitch control.
Assembly
- 15 - Fully automatic 8 station rotary transfer assembly machines
- 2 - Semi-automatic 8 station rotary assembly machines
- 2 - 8 station automatic angle assembly machines
Heat treatment
- 1 - 18" twin shaker hearth - radiant tube with endothermic generator.
- Dew point control - recording facility during processing.
- The furnace has been used only for carbo-nitriding to a shallow case depth
- 1 - Annealing oven (tool room).
- 1 - JN continuous electric stress relieving oven (springs).
Quality Control
- A fully-equipped heat treatment QC control room with fully calibrated light load Vickers and Rockwell hardness testers.
- 1 - Wilson Rockwell hardness tester series 500 with 15, 30 and 45 N and T capability.
- 1 - Zwick Roell Vickers hardness tester with 1, 2.5, 5, 10, 20, and 30Kg loads fully computer integrated for analysis.
- 1 - Sigma HF600 optical projector with profile and front projection.
- 1 - Baty R11 XL optical projector with profile and front projection.
- 2 - Baty R14 XL optical projector with profile projection.
- 1 - Starrett HE400 optical projector with profile projection.
- Calibrated measuring equipment including micrometres, thread gauges etc.
Mechanical Handling
- 1 - 2T BT fourway reach truck
- 1 - Long (4m) pallet truck for steel handling
- 3 - 600kg Pedestrian counter-balance fork-lift (modified for Kingfisher)
- 1 - 1.5T Pedestrian counter-balance fork-truck
- 1 - 2T Counter balance
- 3 - Electric pallet trucks
- 3 - Tipping devices (washing, hardening, swarf handling)
- 1 - Wire spool mobile lifting device
- 1 - Pallet loader for 150Kg export cartons
Others
- Neutral pH Washing machine with horizontal Archimedean screw feed and in built dryer.
- CAD drawing facility.
- Fully equipped toolroom for research and development of machinery and processes.
- Fully equipped maintenance area comprising of centre lathes, vertical milling machine and surface grinder etc.
- Slotting machine.
- Startrite 20RWH vertical band saw.
- Utting UB254 horizontal band saw.
- Drill and tool grinding facilities.
View the full range of products made using our specialist equipment and machinery here.
