Premier orders the UK’s first honing machine of its kind

Premier Deep Hole Drilling, a specialist deep hole drilling, gun drilling and honing subcontractor, has ordered a 2 m horizontal honing machine from Ohio Tool Works Corporation, to be installed in 2011.

Mollart-Cox imports and provides technical support for the Ohio Tool Works Corporation range. The OTW1000-5-2m horizontal honing machine will be the first of its kind in the UK.

Stuart Grant, managing director of Premier, explains the reason for this £140,000 investment: "We have ordered this new generation tube honing machine to fulfill a project for machining aerospace components. For the parts concerned its specification looked perfect on paper, and during performance trials we carried out it proved to be the ideal choice."

"We have purchased the OTW1000-5-2m as a turnkey project," continued Mr Grant. "As the components being machined required precise and consistent size control, we specified the optional Medium Size Control System which offers accurate and dependable size control to 12.5 µm, or better when metalbond abrasives are applied."

The control system is integrated in to a touch screen numerical control system that allows the operator to program the machine on the shopfloor and then carry out other secondary tasks during the honing cycle.

The OTW1000 is available in a variety of standard stroke configurations from 2 to 6 m with spindle drives up to 7.46 kW and honing diameters from 25.4 to 559 mm. Variable spindle speed motors up to 1,000 rpm enable efficient processing using both conventional vitrified and metalbond superabrasives. Designed for flexibility, the model 1000 will process parts using Ohio Tool Works line of heavy-duty tooling as well as tool systems from other manufacturers.

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Michael Richards

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