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 […]
Jobs Machine C Axis repair ERA 4281C High Accuracy Angle Encoder Angle Encoder Referencing Fault Engineering Equipment Centre Ltd were recently called into a large aerospace company by a third-party service engineer to assist with diagnosing a fault on a C axis HEIDENHAIN angle encoder. The Angle Encoder had a referencing fault on a large […]
A long-standing customer recently purchased a second-hand milling machine fitted with a hobby-style Easson DRO system. It was purchased from an educational establishment – bought as seen. It wasn’t until the machine was delivered to the customer’s premises that the customer realised that the milling machine had a 2 axis X-Y DRO system installed – […]
EEC Ltd are engineer’s specialist in Digital Readout (DRO) displays and linear/rotary scale installs, amongst other operational machining maintenance and improvement work. We are appointed UK agents for HEIDENHAIN DRO and ACU-RITE DRO and machine tool equipment. This page discusses integrating these current machine tool technologies into older, legacy & obsolete machining setups Saving Money […]