• ANCA Private Limited

TX7 Travelling Support System for Grinding Machine

The optimum place to support a tool being ground is at the point of greatest load, which is directly under the grinding wheel. A conventional stationary support steady provides sufficient support on a short tool, but when manufacturing tools such as drills up to lengths of 400 mm long, a stationary support will not provide the continual support along the entire length of the tool. The travelling steady provides the machine with an additional axis (P-axis) which, under CNC control, keeps the tool support directly underneath the point of grinding at all times. Keeping support under the wheel means heavy fluting operations on long slender tools is a reality.