common Joe
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- Joined
- May 7, 2013
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- Lemont, IL
My company is buying an Okuma GENOS L2000 lathe for threading exterior 1/2 NPT threads in mild steel. We machine 1000's of these in a small family of parts. There has to either be a cheaper machine brand name, or better manufacturing strategy than this.
Okuma is a heavy duty, close tolerance machine. Bulk threading easy material with $100k+ in equipment is egregious overkill. Any alternative cheaper lathes? Should I just go with thread rolling?
Okuma is a heavy duty, close tolerance machine. Bulk threading easy material with $100k+ in equipment is egregious overkill. Any alternative cheaper lathes? Should I just go with thread rolling?