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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
Altri
- 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.

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