Efficient Turning and Milling of Large Gear Rings and Other Oil and Gas Components
With a spindle design that uses flexible feeds and speeds to cut a variety of materials with excellent surface finish and impressive metal removal rates, the LB3000 EX-II CNC horizontal lathe from Okuma can efficiently turn and mill pipe-type parts with a through-hole diameter that accommodates larger parts.
Posted: January 17, 2018
The versatile LB3000 EX-II CNC horizontal lathe from Okuma America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) is a premier one-saddle lathe with milling function and Y-axis capabilities that is well-known for speed, accuracy, and reliability in machining gear rings and a variety of other component configurations used in oil and gas operations. An optional extended bed on the L, M and MY models is 30 percent longer. Built with a box slant-bed design, this two-axis CNC lathe provides unsurpassed rigidity and extreme thermal stability that is especially important when used in shops with uncontrolled environmental conditions. It is the largest horizontal lathe in the Affordable Excellence collection of machines and is equipped with a high power, high torque PREX motor that delivers high quality machining for heavy to high speed cutting. It can efficiently turn and mill pipe-type parts with a through-hole diameter that can accommodate larger workpieces. The spindle design allows flexibility of feeds and speeds to cut workpieces of a variety of materials and yields excellent surface finish and impressive metal removal rates.
Okuma America Corporation, 11900 Westhall Drive, Charlotte, NC 28278, 704-588-7000, Fax: 704-588-6503, www.okuma.com/americas.
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