Smallest clearance 90° Right Angle Head?

[Aaron Eberhard]

Who makes the smallest 90° head?   I've got a feature that I'm trying to help a customer quote in a aerospace part (shocking!) that's a real PITA, only because of space restrictions.   The machine itself is a standard Mazak 5 axis w/ a Cat 40.

I've went through my normal tooling catalogs, and it seems like the Kaiser/Big Daishawai BCV40-AG90-13-120 is the winner, at 25mm of clearance from the bottom of the housing to the centerline of the tool, but that'll mean I'm still hanging a 1/2" drill bit at least 5.75" out from this little thing.

Most of the other heads have at minimum 26mm of clearance, so we'll be hanging the tool out 6+ inches.

I don't have tolerances or anything yet, so this is all pretty preliminary, but I figured I'd ask who I'm overlooking.

 

Thanks!

[gcode]

This Alberti head might work

https://www.albertiumberto.com/en/products/t90cn-15/

I requested a download of the catalogue page and they sent it to me

but our A/V killed it

[Aaron Eberhard]

6 minutes ago, gcode said:

This Alberti head might work

https://www.albertiumberto.com/en/products/t90cn-15/

I requested a download of the catalogue page and they sent it to me

but our A/V killed it

Ooooh, that's good, thanks G!

[gcode]

Weird ... does that link work?

It keeps kicking me back to your original post????

[Jake L]

1 minute ago, gcode said:

Weird ... does that link work?

It keeps kicking me back to your original post????

same here

[Aaron Eberhard]

2 minutes ago, gcode said:

Weird ... does that link work?

It keeps kicking me back to your original post????

No, but if you copy/paste the text it does

[gcode]

I think I have it fixed now

[Jake L]

If you can make do with a coolant driven head, El Tool makes one with .688 clearance

https://eltool.com/products/angle-heads/sizes-and-dimensions-how-to-order/

The website's pretty clunky if you've never used it

You'd need a 3M weldon nose, so you'd also unfortunately be in a weldon 

[JB7280]

20 hours ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

Who makes the smallest 90° head?   I've got a feature that I'm trying to help a customer quote in a aerospace part (shocking!) that's a real PITA, only because of space restrictions.   The machine itself is a standard Mazak 5 axis w/ a Cat 40.

I've went through my normal tooling catalogs, and it seems like the Kaiser/Big Daishawai BCV40-AG90-13-120 is the winner, at 25mm of clearance from the bottom of the housing to the centerline of the tool, but that'll mean I'm still hanging a 1/2" drill bit at least 5.75" out from this little thing.

Most of the other heads have at minimum 26mm of clearance, so we'll be hanging the tool out 6+ inches.

I don't have tolerances or anything yet, so this is all pretty preliminary, but I figured I'd ask who I'm overlooking.

 

Thanks!

Saw these guys at IMTS last year.  They had some little baby right angle heads they were demo'ing.  They're available to us through our mitsubishi rep.  

 

https://www.mst-corp.co.jp/en/home/angle_head-top/mini/

[Aaron Eberhard]

1 hour ago, JB7280 said:

Saw these guys at IMTS last year.  They had some little baby right angle heads they were demo'ing.  They're available to us through our mitsubishi rep.  

 

https://www.mst-corp.co.jp/en/home/angle_head-top/mini/

Oh man!  I forgot to check MST's website.  That makes perfect sense.  Thanks!  I love their tool holders.

[JB7280]

1 hour ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

Oh man!  I forgot to check MST's website.  That makes perfect sense.  Thanks!  I love their tool holders.

I've never tried the toolholders, but I've heard great things.   

[motor-vater]

Also take a look at the product offering from Benz. I bought one a few years ago and its a nice piece. Their slim wgx-s might fit the bill but I don't speak MM.. lol

https://www.benztooling.com/en-us/metal/products/machining-center/angle-heads

Also as a side note I hate right angle head work... lol talk about PITA....

 

[Sumac Andy]

We have a few of the OMG heads here, larger than your requirement but they do smaller heads - Angle Heads Series BY OMG AMERICA -