Climax BB4500 LINE BORING MACHINE - Manual (Page 9)

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Climax Portable Machining & Welding Systems Web site: climaxportable.com
Worldwide Phone:
1.503.538.2185 N. America Toll-Free: 1.800.333.8311 Fax: 1.503.538.7600 E-mail: [email protected]
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a fast Six-Step process
1
Slide the bar through the
two holes to be bored and
roughly center it with the
set-up cones. The set-up
cones are forced into the
bore with the clamp ring
jacking screw and locked
onto the bar with a set
screw.
Elapsed time: 4 minutes.
2
Slide on spherical mounts
with tack weld plates, and
tack weld them to the
workpiece.
These mounts have
spherical bearings so they
can be mounted up to
5° out of perpendicular
alignment.
Elapsed time: 10 minutes.
3
Remove the set-up
cones and replace the
bar. The set-up cones
will adequately center
the bar, unless you have
very precise tolerances,
or need to move the
center line of the bore
slightly. Final centering
adjustments are made
with the jacking screws.
Elapsed time: 5 minutes.
4
Slide the rotational drive
onto the bar until the self-
aligning mounting collar
is firmly seated on the
mounting bracket, and
lock it in place with one
screw.
Elapsed time: 2 minutes.
5
The axial feed unit is
slipped onto the bar and
the feedscrew is screwed
into the pocket on the
rotational drive unit.
Tightening two clamping
collars locks the axial
feed unit to the bar.
Elapsed time: 2 minutes.
6
Insert a properly ground
tool bit into the tool hole
in the bar, adjust for
depth of cut, and lock in
pla ce with the set screw.
Elapsed time: 4 minutes.
Setup is complete, you
are ready to begin the
first pass.
Total elapsed time: 27
minutes.
Setup of the BB4500 Portable Boring Machine is quick and
easy. An experienced operator can set up the machine in most
typical two-bore line boring applications in about half an hour
(depending on alignment tolerances).
The three main ingredients of the quick setup system are:
• Setup cones to roughly center the bar in the bore.
• Spherical mounts that can be quickly tack-welded in place.
• Quick-mount rotational drive unit, attaches to spherical mount in
seconds