Irvine, California - KME CNC's workholding tombstones were designed to help shops increase their productivity while also giving them the opportunity to accomplish 5-axis work on existing equipment. The only one of its kind in the world, KME CNC's 5 axis wireless tombstone is designed to convert 4-axis horizontal machine to 5-axis by allowing the operator to present multiple 5-axis parts to the spindle, in a single set-up. This robust 5-axis workholding tombstone is built out of meehanite cast iron and billet aluminum covers, and is wireless (connects to the CNC controls via RF Frequency).
Features:
- Capability of being installed on existing equipment with no drive cards and/or upgrades necessary, only thing required is RS-232 port and available M-Code on CNC Machine
- Programmable directly through g-code
- Wireless, power cell operated; perfect for pallet pool applications, A&B Pallets
- 300 ft/lbs of torque on each platter, 0 backlash for 10,000 hrs of continuous use . Capable of having 8 total indexing platters on a single tombstone
Source: KME CNC