EEC routinely assist machining customers who are running old and ageing machining centres, mills and lathes. Some of the work is maintenance and repair, whilst other scenarios present a requirement to introduce modern accuracy standards into older machinery – the latter being the focus of this post. In the current climate of cost driven markets, […]
EEC Ltd received a call from a local machining company, enquiring as to whether an existing HEIDENHAIN scale and DRO could be salvaged from an old machine due to be scrapped and retro-fitted to a recently acquired Myford Cylindrical grinder. The single axis HEIDENHAIN LS 388C scale with ND 287 Display was fitted to an […]
EEC Ltd received a call from a new customer – recommended by a third-party service company we had previously completed repairs for. They were experiencing an ‘encoder amplitude low’ alarm on a HEIDENHAIN LB301 scale/encoder. EEC Ltd visited the customer on-site swiftly, to discover the history of the machine and the physical state of the […]
The 3 photos below demonstrate a repaired and refurbished Heidenhain LC 183/1740mm absolute scale. This high-quality, precision absolute linear scale is installed on a production-critical machine at the facility of one of our regular customers. EEC repaired and refurbished the scale which was back and fully operational with the customer, within 24 hours. You will […]
