feed shaft

All rotor and feed shafts can be removed from the mills as fully assembled units.

This feedscrew can be engaged, through a gear train, to the feed shaft (mentioned previously) to provide automated 'power feed' movement to the cross-slide.

The operator moves the carriage manually via the handwheel (5a) or automatically by engaging the feed shaft with the carriage feed mechanism (5c).

T - TRAVERSE -or power feeds again will be variable through the gearbox or changewheels via the feed shafts.

It is used for turning tapers, to control depth of cut when screwcutting or precision facing, or to obtain finer feeds (under manual control) than the feed shaft permits.