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High Performance Centres for Turning and Grinding

High Performance Centres for Turning and Grinding
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High Performance Centres for Turning and Grinding

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Introduction: This document serves as a comprehensive guide to RUCKNER's high-performance centres for turning and grinding, highlighting their precision and reliability. It covers historical context, product specifications, technical details, and applications for various series of live and dead centres.
Historical Background: Founded in 1918 by Karl Bruckner, the company evolved from machine repair to manufacturing lathe centres, growing through innovation and resilience, especially post-WWII. The management has maintained a focus on quality and precision across generations.
Product Range: The document categorizes products into several series tailored for specific machining needs:
  • S Series: Standard centres for high precision turning and grinding.
  • NC Series: Live centres for high-speed CNC turning with a TOP-SEAL sealing system.
  • LK Series: Centres offering high stiffness for advanced turning and grinding.
  • LR/LD Series: Spring-loaded centres with pressure indication and expansion compensation.
  • M/MZ Series: Centres for heavy-duty machining with spring loading options.
  • ZA Series: Bullnose live centres for large bore workpieces.
Technical Specifications: Detailed technical information is provided for each series, including point angles, load values, and material specifications, emphasizing high-quality materials and precision engineering.
Quality Assurance: RUCKNER ensures precision through rigorous testing and quality control, adhering to DIN and ISO standards, and offers maintenance-free bearings and repair services.
Applications: A quick-find guide helps match operation requirements with the appropriate series, considering workpiece accuracy, surface finish, and machining conditions.
Conclusion: RUCKNER's commitment to innovation and quality is evident in its diverse product offerings, designed to meet modern machining demands.
Detailed Specifications and Applications: The document provides specifications for various high-performance live centres, focusing on series like NC, LK, and LR/LD, designed for CNC turning and grinding operations.
Load and Performance: Each type has specific radial and axial load capacities, with load graphs ensuring a bearing life of 2000 operating hours.
Design Features: Live centres are designed with high concentricity accuracy, safety spigots, and maintenance-free bearings, suitable for industries like turbine manufacturing and oil industry machining.
Additional Features: Some centres include expansion compensation, pressure indication, and supplementary seals for operations with heavy coolant flows.
Recommendations: Users should adhere to load graphs and consider specific application requirements for optimal performance, with regular checks and maintenance suggested for tool longevity.
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Precision and reliability first High Performance Centres for Turning and Grinding

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High performance live centres Präzision aus gutem Hause. Quick Find Types SKOP/SKOPG Standard centres (without spring loading) for high precision turning, CNC turning and cylindrical grinding Technical information Page 4/5 Live centres without spring loading, for turning, high speed CNC turning. Incorporating TOP-SEAL sealing system Live centres without spring loading for high performance turning, hard turning and cylindrical grinding. High stiffness due to short design and optimised bearing arrangement Technical information Technical information LR/LD Series Spring loaded centres. LR: with pressure...

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Types SH/SHG Types SV/SVG Types SE/SEG 60° with carbide insert 60° full carbide with sa •co ® safety core with draw-off thread BÖKO Series 60° with carbide insert Centres without spring loading for turning and CNC turning Spring loaded centres with pressure indication for CNC lathes without tailstock and CNC lathes with opposed spindles Cylindrical Shank for interchangeable inserts Page 39 Page 40 60°, 60°/40° and for centering inserts Special Designs Special Designs Special Designs Live sleeves Bullnose live centres High performance live centres Tool steel dead centres Technical information...

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Rotating high performance centre for heavy-duty machining, with 2 roller bearings (1936) Brochure 1940 > The Past Lathe with rotating high performance centre from BRUCKNER Company premises in Stuttgart 1920 The founder, Karl Bruckner In 1918 Karl Bruckner founded his engineering workshop in Stuttgart and laid the cornerstone for a success story which continues today – more than 90 years on. Initially the business focused on the repair and overhaul of machines but his ability to find innovative solutions to technical problems led him to rapidly obtain orders for his own designs of pedestal grinders...

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Administration building Production halls Todays product range well illustrates the unending Bruckner quest for perfection and precision. Measuring room A highly qualified and motivated staff is committed to fulfilling customer demands. The application of high precision machine tools and the highest inhouse standards of measurement have decisive influences on manufacturing. Entrepreneurial activity, responsibility to employees and business partners, with commitment to innovation and uncompromising quality have been the decisive policy for the mission of this medium sized family owned company,...

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High Performance Live Centres – Quick Find Conventional turning Operation requirements Recommended series/types High workpiece surface finish Hard workpieces (hard turning) High live centre rigidity Elimination of or minimum vibrations during operation Heavy coolant flow High r.p.m. (> 5.000 1/min.) Long shafts Thermal expansion of workpiece due to machining Large workpiece centres/bores Variable clamping possibilities for different workpieces High rate of wear on the 60° centre point angle Wear reduction on the 60° angle by carbide tipping Types SE/SEG Type NCE Types SH/SHG Types SV/SVG Types...

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High Performance Live Centres – Quick Find Cylindrical grinding Operation requirements Workpiece accuracy Recommended series/types S Series 3µm with additional sealing (9-15) High workpiece surface finish Elimination of or minimum vibrations during operation Heavy coolant flow Long shafts S Series 3µm, with additional sealing (9-15) S Series 3µm with additional sealing (9-15) Large workpiece centres/bores Variable clamping possibilities for different workpieces Type SEG with additional sealing (14/15) Type SHG Wear reduction on the 60° angle by carbide tipping with additional sealing (12) with...

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High Performance Live Centres BRUCKNER WORKS STANDARD BRUCKNER WORKS STANDARD Our high performance live centres – standard as well as special designs – are produced and tested according to our works standard. Materials, production and testing are subject to strict quality guidelines guaranteeing function and performance of our tools. Test report for concentricity accuracy Every single BRUCKNER high performance live centre is tested for its runout under axial load. The test result is stamped into the high performance centre and is guaranteed by the test report. Example: table „maximum runout“...

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High Performance Live Centres Centrepoint of through-hardened alloy tool steel Seal ring protects the bearings from dirt and coolant. Optionally available with supplementary seal (page 10) S Series – the classic design with head bearings The all-rounder of our high performance live centres. The centres from our S series offer the user an economic solution for almost every standard workholding situation. From turning and cylindrical grinding to measuring and inspection, centres of the S series fulfil the high requirements of performance, precision and tool life. High concentricity accuracy tested...

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High Performance Live Centres Types S, SG Runout Type S Type SG with test report Application Type S – conventional turning, CNC turning, roughing, finishing Type SG – for turning and grinding operations demanding high accuracy, measuring Supplementary seal For operations involving heavy flows of coolant or large quantities of dust and dirt (e. g. cylindrical grinding), a supplementary seal can be fitted onto the centrepoint. The seal turns together with the centrepoint, seals the protection cap and additionally works as a splash ring. supplementary seal Morse taper D DG LA LB LC Workpiece weight...

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High Performance Live Centres Types SKOP, SKOPG Runout Type SKOP Type SKOPG with test report Application Whenever the working distance between centre and workpiece is confined. The extended, slim centrepoint can enlarge this space. Type SKOP – conventional turning, CNC turning, roughing, finishing Type SKOPG – for turning operations demanding high accuracy Type SKOP Type SKOPG Morse taper DA D DG LA LB LC Workpiece weight max. daN* r.p.m. max.* Radial/axial load graph Supplementary seal ID.No. With draw-off thread see pages 16/17 *observe the load graphs Radial and axial loads for a bearing life...

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.