|
|
Article: Resurrection, Inc.: resurrecting a machine tool from the past and giving it a new, and useful, life has both challenges and rewards.(REPAIR SERVICE)
- Article from:
- Modern Applications News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 Nelson Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
A company creating an axle for one of the world's largest dump trucks needed a machine tool to fit the job. The difficulty was that no one was building such a machine any more. A vertical turret lathe--VTL--from the 1970s would work, but not as it was originally built. The company turned to KRC Machine Tool Services to bring the VTL back to life to fit modern requirements.
KRC, Independence, KY, has partnered with U.S. and multinational companies to build specialized machines for production and research facilities around the globe. The company is a rebuilder, retrofitter, and remanufacturer of machine tools.
For instance, ...