New concept of Wickes Corp, Saginaw, Mich, for machining forged steel automotive crankshafts with carbide cutting tools consists of applying group of four single purpose lathes for progressively machining No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 pin diam of four-throw V-8 crankshafts; each machine is fed by single, automated transfer line. (see also Machy (NY) v 64 n 3 Nov 1957 p 173-6; Carbide Eng v 8 n 11 Nov 1957 p 10-11, 13; Iron Age v 180 n 22 Nov 28 1957 p 82-4; Tool Engr v 40 n 1 Jan 1958 p 103-6; Machy (Lond) v 92 n 2362 Feb 21 1958 p 443-4; Steel v 141 n 20 Nov 11 1957 p 114-5)
Carbide tooling and single-purpose lathes speed machining of forged crankpins
Automobile Engr
Automobile Engineer ; 92 , n 2362
1958
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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