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The ‘PROFESSIONAL’ with Constant Surface Speed (CSS) Cutting DRO System

The last word in Toolroom lathe productivity. The latest CSS Digital Readout System gives you productivity gains up to 25% on CLAUSING/COLCHESTER ‘PROFESSIONAL’ over conventional engine lathes.

Only CLAUSING/PROFESSIONAL ‘PROFESSIONAL’ Toolroom Lathes gives you features that will let you achieve cutting performance similar to a CNC lathe.  CSS automatically controls spindle speed during machining, allowing high performance tooling and very high cutting speeds during finishing operations.

• Extended tool life due to optimum cutting speeds

• 25% productivity increase

• Gain full use of high performance cutting tools    

• Better surface finish

With a conventional engine lathe, much time is lost in changing headstock gear ranges to obtain the optimum cutting speed. In practice, the operator will choose an in-between speed to minimize the number of gear changes, which gives an other than optimum cutting speed resulting in lost production time.

The examples illustrated show how much the ‘PROFESSIONAL’ fitted with CSS, leaves a similar sized conventional engine lathe behind in terms of cycle time.

ACU-RITE ® 200S LCD Digital Readout with Constant Surface Speed (CSS)

Intuitive, operator-friendly keypad with easy-to-read flat-screen LCD display

ACU-RITE Constant Surface Speed, user friendly, set-up screen.

• 16 Tool Offsets for easy compensation of different tool sizes

• Lock Axis feature, used in conjunction with tool offsetting, lets the operator establish tool offsets with the tool under load, resulting in reduced deflection

• Instant radius/diameter conversion reduces math errors and allows operator to machine to print

• Posit-Trac™; a unique feature that lets you easily, quickly and accurately re-establish workpiece zero after power loss

• 2 or 3-axes 5.7" flat-screen LCD display

• Preset and zero reset

• Near-zero warning

• Instant inch/mm conversion

• Linear and non-linear error compensation

• Taper calculator

• Die-cast metal construction

• RS-232-C/V.24 serial port data interface

Precision Glass Scales
ACU-RITE precision glass scales withstand the elements found in the harshest machine shop environments.

As a result, our precision glass scales resist changes in size, shape or density due to temperature and humidity variation.

• Exceptional accuracy ±.00006" (1.5µm)

• Available in lengths from 1"–773" (25.4–19634mm)

• Resolution from .00002"–.0005" (.05–10µm)