Home  >  Metal Processing Machinery  >  Machine Tool Equipment  >  Planer & Slotting Machines

Ram type heads adds ultimate linear maching capabilites into your planing machines - milling, drilling, boring, facing etc - details see: https://www.machineto.com/ram-type-plano-miller-10132146

Converted Plano miller, when retrofitted with ram type milling head & axis feed system, is the near-ultimate solution in linear machining at an amazingly affordable cost. Ram head adds Plano milling, drilling, boring, facing capabilities to a planing machine. In combination with DRO for axes movement, ram type milling head can help the converted Plano miller to perform coordinate machining capabilities like pitch drilling, boring etc accurately. Detachable right angle milling attachment permits ram to machine the side walls inside the deep, inaccessible interiors of a work piece. A small investment on a ram type milling head will bring home a whole lot of amazing and multipurpose linear machining capabilities to the planer, without the need of additional space and man power!

Cylindrical quills of the conventional milling heads inherently need more sliding clearance in their respective guiding bores in the spindle housings. Larger clearance between the quill and the bore reduces the rigidity of the milling head. As the cutting zone gets shifted away from the milling head, spindle accuracy keeps deteriorating. Large bearing supports for long spindle make the spindle housing huge, which prevented them from reaching the interiors of jobs, having narrow access passage. Sleek - yet rugged, long – yet accurate, Ram type milling head overcomes these barriers of the conventional milling head, without sacrificing the rigidity.

The box type ram of the milling head is located in a rigid housing. The square design of the ram minimizes the play between the male and female sliding surfaces. Unique, 4 numbers of hand scraped taper jibs eliminate excess clearance between the sliding surfaces and leave just minimum sliding clearance that is required. When machining is done at long-distance away from the spindle, the accuracy and material removal capabilities of the milling head remain unaffected.

Ram type milling heads are hitherto exclusive for high end machines like CNC Plano millers. Shenoy Engg Pvt Ltd, a Bangalore based SPM manufacturers, have made available the ram type milling heads at an affordable price even for the conventional planing machines, which are to be converted into Plano millers. The ram stroke or vertical traverse is 350 mm or more, if required. 145 mm x 145 mm box type ram is made of high grade CI, stress-relieved and hand-scraped for a very level of blue match. Internal row of multiple bearings provides rigid support to the long spindle of the ram type milling head. The ram feed is through a combination of common VFD controlled motor, gear box, angular contact bearing supported ball lead screw and box nut. Adjustable feed-end setting is through dog operated limit switches and the scale with graduation. A 5 HP motor powers the ISO-40 spindle through a gear train. There are 4 spindle speeds through lever operated mechanism. The head is capable of accommodating Ø160 mm cutter maximum.

Ram heads are available in higher capacity like 10 HP & 20 HP. Ram slides are also offered with case hardened guideway strips and turcite combination optionally for a high level of wear resistance, inertia resistance and smooth sliding movement.