Prepping to Machine Rail Axles Better

April 13, 2015
Watch as Euro Machinery Specialists, Menomonee Falls, WI, remanufactures a Snyder “three-stage” lathe for Standard Forged Products, McKees Rocks, PA, for use in the production of rail and locomotive axles.
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Watch as Euro Machinery Specialists, Menomonee Falls, WI, remanufactures a  Snyder “three-stage” lathe for Standard Forged Products, McKees Rocks, PA, for use in the production of rail and locomotive axles.  The change from hydraulic tracer to Siemens advanced CNC control, DC headstock to Siemens synchronized AC drive, and hydraulic to Siemens AC axes servo motion, substantially improves finishing of steel billets into hammer forged finished axles.