Carbon Fibre Shaft Grinding

Manufacturing machine for grinding carbon fibre shafts prior to the push assembly of end fittings. The resulting products are used as drive shafts for aircraft control surfaces in the aerospace industry.

• Designed and built in-house
• Uses Si-Plan digital controller and data acquisition system
• Grinding of carbon fibre shafts to tight tolerances
• 12 head tool selection
• Moveable talestock
• Axial and radial control of grinding head position during grind
• Application of a pre-scrub before grinding head is engauged