Precision Machine Tool Rebuilding & Retrofitting

Whole machines and single axes alike, back to their original specification. A geometric rebuild restores a slide, an axis or a table to spec against the rest of the machine, measured before and after, without the cost and downtime of a full teardown.

Ball screws where there were acme screws, a variable speed drive where there was a gear head, gear train work, lube, way covers and guarding. The mechanical half of modernising a machine worth keeping, fitted onto geometry that has been put right first.

Hand scraping for fine work in small areas and round bearings. Power scrapers for fast, true way alignments on larger areas. Straight edge masters from three inches to twelve feet, with lasers, precision electronic indicators, and electronic levels combined with metrology software.

We diagnose machine tool problems from the machining problem level, not just the slide-way table repair level. We take a machine tool repair from diagnosis through correction of the root cause, on your floor, mechanical and electrical.

A proprietary process for grinding ways in place, on your floor. Way surfaces restored to factory flatness and geometry without the rigging, trucking and downtime that sending the machine out costs. Four to six weeks less downtime.

Moglice, Rulon, and Turcite way liner installation to restore slide and way surfaces. An economical alternative to full regrinding where geometry allows, with excellent wear characteristics and low stick-slip. Fitted, then scraped in, because fitting restores thickness and only scraping restores the geometry.

CNC machine repair on your floor, mechanical and electrical. Geometry lost after a crash, worn ways, spindles, ball screws, drives, motors, and controls. Retrofitting with GE Fanuc and Siemens controls, and the mechanical rebuild that goes with it.

Chatter, taper, a bore out of square, a slide that sticks, a spindle that runs hot. Each points at a short list of causes, and measuring the machine says which. We diagnose from the part the machine is making, not from the component that failed.

Two types of lasers, precision electronic indicators, two types of electronic levels, and specific metrology software for plotting way surfaces, grafting work, and checking alignments. Buy the survey on its own, with or without the work that follows.

HLV-H and the Super-Precision family, rebuilt back to their original geometry. Ways reground and scraped, spindle and bearings, saddle, cross slide and tailstock brought back into line, then measured and proved before the machine ships.

Surface, cylindrical and specialty grinders from Brown and Sharpe, Mattison, Okamoto, Kellenberger and Studer. Tables and ways, spindles and workheads, hydraulics and controls, back to the geometry the machine was built to hold.