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Roboda V1 Spindle Kit

Boxed-column BT30 vertical mill kit, 750 x 450 x 450 mm travel, flood coolant

₹425,000.00 excluding GST

Specification

PlatformRoboda V1
Headspindle
Operationsmilling, engraving, cutting
MaterialsWood (Capable), Plastic (Production), Acrylic (Capable), Aluminium (Production), Steel (Production), Mild steel (Production)
Assembly timeabout 30.0 hours
Lead time45 days
MRP incl. 18% GSTRs 501,500.00

What this machine will and will not work

Wood
Capable
Cuts wood easily - the machine has far more rigidity than wood needs - but this is a flood-coolant metal mill. Wood dust plus water-miscible coolant makes a paste that blocks the trough and rots in the tank. Run wood dry with the air-blast option, cover the coolant trough, and clean out before returning to metal. Class is 'capable' rather than 'production' because sustained wood work is bad for this machine, not because it cannot do it.
Plastic
Production
Delrin, nylon, HDPE, UHMW and glass-filled composites machine well at 6 000-8 000 rpm in the high belt position with single- or two-flute cutters. Run dry or with air blast; coolant is unnecessary and some plastics absorb it. Rigid tapping in nylon and Delrin is reliable with the spindle encoder.
Acrylic
Capable
Cast acrylic mills and engraves cleanly with a single-flute O-flute at 8 000 rpm and a high chip load. Do not use flood coolant - water-miscible fluid crazes stressed acrylic. Extruded acrylic melts and welds behind the cutter at these spindle speeds unless feed is kept high, so it is 'capable' not 'production': the machine is faster than acrylic wants to be.
Aluminium
Production
This is the machine's easiest production material. 6061, 6082 and cast plate at 6 000-8 000 rpm in the high belt position, 3-flute carbide, 0.05-0.08 mm per tooth, flood coolant or the MQL option. A 12 mm 3-flute at 6 mm radial by 12 mm axial removes about 90 000 mm3/min in 6061 - roughly 2.6x the steel sizing cut - and is still inside the 2.2 kW spindle.
Steel
Production
Steel milling is what this machine was sized for. The design cut is a 12 mm 4-flute carbide end mill in EN8 at 6 mm radial by 12 mm axial, 0.05 mm per tooth, 2 400 rpm, 477 mm/min, flood coolant - 34 344 mm3/min at 1 431 W at the cutter. EN24 and 4140 in the annealed condition run at about 70 % of those figures. Hardened tool steel above about 35 HRC is outside the machine: use it for finishing passes only, if at all.
Mild steel
Production
Mild steel - hot-rolled and bright-drawn - is the reference material for the whole force budget, and every structural calculation in this dossier assumes it. Face milling, slotting, drilling to 16 mm and rigid tapping to M12 in one setup are routine. Hot-rolled scale is abrasive: take the first pass under the scale at full depth rather than skimming it, or tool life collapses.

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