Optional Equipment

A wide range of optional equipment is available to customize your TORNADO into the exact machine for your application

Speed range.
Every TORNADO is offered with either high or low speed ranges and is supplied with the appropriate chuck for your chosen spindle speed. The lower speed option offers higher torque and greater chuck capacity.

Hydraulic tailstock.
Suitable for bar and shaft turning, it is manually positioned complete with hydraulic quill. Quill operation is programmable and hydraulically operated for automated operations.

Chip conveyor.
Ultra simple and reliable conveyor for the automatic removal of chips and other debris.

Renishaw motorized tool setting arm.
Automatic in-cycle tool setting and data update.

Renishaw workpiece measuring probe.
Optically coupled LP2 probe provides component measurement and automatic compensation.

 
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MBF 1000T bar feeder.
All electric, fully integrated, bar feeder featuring work scheduling software, automatic bar measurement and calculation of the number of components that can be made from the available bar.

Robot Loader.
Fanuc articulated robot (model depends on application) for auto loading during chucking applications.

Parts catcher.
New high capacity parts catcher supplied with removable container.

Generic bar feeder interface.
Suitable for most popular makes of bar feeders.

 
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HSQC Chuck.
This is the class leading quick change jaw counterbalance chuck from Pratt Burnerd. The time saved in changing jaws can pay for this chuck in 6 months

Collet chucks.
Choice of Crawford CDC and DIN collet chucks and collets.

 
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VDI Toolholders.  Wide range of  turning toolholders, long and short form, standard & inverted styles. Boring bar, Morse taper, collet chucks and power driven toolholders for live tooling machines.

 
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COLCAM. CAM software has been developed by Colchester  to reduce programming times on all Colchester/Harrison 2, 3, 5 and 6 axis machines. Equally suitable for other CNC machines including machining centers.

Ethernet Link.
Allows remote accessing of the CNC to extract data for part program transfer, supervisory control, data acquisition, diagnostic and maintenance functions. (Standard on MS models)

 
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• Custom macro ‘B’

• 16 additional pairs of tool offsets (total 32 pairs)

• Thread cycle retract

• Variable lead threading

• Stored stroke limit

• Extended part program edit

• Multiple optional block skip

• Expanded memory to 128K total.

 
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