Niles-Simmons CNC Axle Lathe For Railway Axle Production 

Anyone else get hypnotized by this?

Step dad worked at a box car plant as a welder, they also turned axles and wheels but on old punch card and tape NC machines.... Yes it was the 70s ! Pullman Standard Bessemer AL

It's very cool to get to see one of these run with the doors open and no coolant running. We run 4 N40 machines where I work to manufacture axles. But due to safety issues we must keep the doors closed. We do it all, from forging raw material to finished axle, all in one facility.

Nice to see the company monitors the the comments! Niles has a very long history, over a century. I'm not familiar with Simmons but a short vid or intro on future videos would give customers an idea of the history of these companies. Survival alone is an accomplishment!

I used to machine bigger shafts on a conventional Niles c/l in the 80s. 3/8" a side at .032" per rev feed with 15 degree approach tool. Plenty of power!!

4:25, man that turning tool got scary close to the jaws! Personally I hate taking tools that close but that is just me! I know the machines are capable and all! Great video!

Interesting. When I worked at ACF Industries, the Wheel and Axle shop received the axles pre-machined, but oversize. They were then turned close to size in regular lathes, then ground in a Landis centerless grinder, before being pressed into the wheels. The semi-finished axles came into the plant on a flat car, in banded stacks. The wheels came in similar to the same, where they were bored and the OD turned, if need be, in two vertical boring mills, gauged, then sent to the wheel press. That was in the old Huntington plant, so I'm not sure what they do in Arkansas now. Before working there, and after, I sold large fab equipment, and I was the Pandjiris rep for the Ohio valley area at the time (Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia). Pandjiris is who made the car rotators, welding seamers, welding gantries, etc. I was a repair rep for the old NCG burning machines, too, and sold Detroit Hoist hoists and cranes.

Very good, but PLEASE get rid of the music.

Nice Video .. Music DESTROYS it completely though !

1hat is a bad ass set up!!! love it wish we had one at our shop!!!

What an amazing machine! Fantastic.

We proof machine axles supplied by Indian Railways on 1960's all geared jhon lang & dean smith and co,the rate which govt gives for the axles is too low almost nill.Thats why India lacks behind western world,lower rates,standards no research and development facilities at SMEs,Personally I know people who are still running steam powered rice mills.Nice Machine,keep on developing and contributing in development of world.

Taking some crazy deep cuts

Love this machine

Yes me too. Incredible innovative

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Amazing how much stock can be removed cleanly in a single pass. Looks as though the cutting depth reaches a quarter inch or more. Jeeeez.... I wonder if this is softer steel intended to be heat treated later?

Такая чистота поверхности и глубина реза достигаются за счет невероятной жесткости станка? Как этого добиваются? Почему не применялось охлаждение?

Wow. Badass machine

Do you know what alloy of steel used for railway axles. Why does a very long spiral chip shoot of at beginning of change cut direction?

AMAZING MACHINE

that's some hardcore shit right there Marine

Nice machine

1000th like by me!!

great video

im curious, dont the rollers get damaged if a chip gets in between them and the workpiece? is there some sourt of air barrier?

tool change is a bit slow

nice machine.

It's great but how do you keep the chips from getting caught in the steady rest rollers?

This music is horrible! I could take it for half a minute before I muted it. The video is highly interesting though.

Good programming

how much cutting depth and feedrate? spindle speed? can do 10mm and 0.5mm feedrate?

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Great video!!! Take a hint and ditch that horrible noisy music!!!!

Can you tell me about the chuck or point me to the specs? Gone are the days of form tools to plunge large fillets radii.....well, almost gone. : )

hello sir, i have a kingston machine type CL38C. i have a problem with the alarm code "ex 1034 2nd turred not inposition" what is the solution ,, i expect your answer

Without any coolant? Don't you have thermal issues?

Surprised to see no coolant flowing.

i need how to hold small diameter job in cnc turning machine

we technician prefer steel shaving and high pitch rotating machine music

can't deal with that soundtrack

Nope, its not. This machine only makes shafts (see how the turrents have like only 8 tools?). The toolchanges happen when the turrents aren't in use, like during loading of the next piece. It changes tools to replace worn inserts, not because it needs to switch another tool type (like how some CNC lathes have 200 tool magazines - this is not the case - those lathes do more complex operations so they need all those tools).

There's this liquid stuff that people use called coolant. Does anybody know what it's used for? That's right kids, it cools the insert so it lasts 10 times longer. Just came out like a century or two ago.

Holy fuck its that off center

How many parts are you getting per side on a roughing insert?

How many kw does this spindle have?

when u realyze the image and the sound are not in time contact: pri celess XD

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I need this machine

What is this music name? :D

Those bits must be very expensive

Where do you guys find the sound track for this holy cow!

WTF is this music.

The song stop at 2:26 ¬¬

Love the video...HATE the terrible music.

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Not keen on the technique, seems lazy. Surely you start by removing the rust and hammer scale from the forging? Then bring the component into round, to reduce vibration and increase bearing life and product quality. All done with cheaper tool bits, save the good ones for the real cutting.

Bharathi

estaria bueno escuchar el ruido del cnc y no esa musica fea

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worlds slowest tool changer, almost like watching paint dry

Music junked the video

please repost without the horrible music !

To Slow for CNC..

Wtf with this music?

Narration, not music!

music ? ้hahaha

Very annoying music ....

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Lose the idiotic crap music,jeez!!!!!