pallet changers

[TREV]

good day all,

i was looking to see if anyone out there had any expeirience with madaco pallet changers?

we are looking at adding another makino mill to our floor. it would possibly be a S56 with a madaco pallet.

any feed back good or bad

thanks,trevor

[MACHINEMASTERG]

we use a midaco pallet system here... but insteed of having that rack bolted to the front of the machine we made our own custom setup basicly we took there pallet rack and mounted it to a die table one on each side so you can pull one pallet out of the machine then swing the die table pallet system around and load the other pallet its great for swapping out vises to the rotary or pallet to another pallet but for production changes it gets alittle tiring rolling this several hundred pound pallet cart all day long if i get a chance ill post some photos its great for what we intended it for the best part is theres no big rack bolted to the front of the machine that you have to climb over all the time and you can do machine change overs in minutes ...

[TREV]

thanks greg,

it looks the the set up we would get gets mounted to the side of machine.when it swaps pallets a door opens up and the table would move to the corresponding spot to shuttle them.

it sounds like yours is manual,if im understanding your set up correctly. ours would be fully auto.

thank you for your input.

trevor

[Craig-B]

We have the Midaco automatic pallet system here on a couple of Mori Seiki SV400's and they work ok. But we lost about 6 inches of Z travel which caused a problem with the tool change on some jobs.

[MACHINEMASTERG]

thats rite ours is a manual setup ..as far as craig had said about the z travel see if you can get the extended z from the factory thats what we did before we designed our pallet setup we use it on two machines extended z and a thin table so you dont lose too much in the z

[TREV]

thanks for the replies,

i had not even considered the loss of z travel im not sure getting a machine with extra travel is even available on the makino.ill have to do more homework.

trevor