Tormach Tool Changer Getting Closer

There was an update to their blog a few days back, so check there for full details. The beta test has been underway for about 1 month for some lucky Tormach owners. You’ve probably seen the original Tormach ATC video, but this new one shows a lot of other cool features:

You can see from the video they’ve done a real nice job with the Mach3 screens for the changer, and the integrated tool touch setter is really slick too.

Should be a pretty amazing productivity upgrade for these great little mills.

I got a kick out of this use of a floor jack to position the changer for installation:

PS Eric and several of the other Tormach folks are G-Wizard users.

 

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  Kyle 2011/03/28 at 3:44 am

  I had never really seen a tormach in action until now. Talk about hobby use only I cannot believe how slow those steppers went. I think even a baby HAAS would have that finished in the time it took to drill and tap.

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  Kyle 2011/03/28 at 3:44 am

  I had never really seen a tormach in action until now. Talk about hobby use only I cannot believe how slow those steppers went. I think even a baby HAAS would have that finished in the time it took to drill and tap.

  Reply