Reliability wins order for Broadbent Stanley

The customer is a major Broadbent Stanley user that manufactures oil pipe casings. Over the past 20 years, the firm has purchased five Broadbent Stanley lathes – three manual and two CNC - but it also purchased another brand of lathe about 6 years ago and whose poor performance opened the way for this latest delivery. Broadbent Stanley's managing director, Graham Thomas, visited the Egyptian company's production facility recently and was pleased to see all five Broadbent lathes working, while the other machine was broken down, yet again, it is reported. The customer asked Mr Thomas to dispose of it for him and in return said it would purchase a replacement plus an additional machine to meet growing production demands. The machines delivered are heavy duty manual models: Broadbent Stanley PA 45 x 3000 mm. Each is fitted with a 14" diameter (355.5 mm) hollow spindle, front and rear mounted chucks, hydraulic copying and the Broadbent Stanley's patented semi-automatic threading cycle. A feature not dissimilar to the auto-cycles found on a CNC machine and which also enables the operator to pick up the start of an existing thread for repair work. The machine taken away was scrapped.