Industrial straight line edging machines ( 8,10 and 11 wheels and more)
Here we speak about straight line edging machines for industrial glass processing productions. These machines can edge every thickness with possibility for important removal glass (generally up to 5 mm in only one time), and are able to adjust the arises width depending the glass thickness and to reach a bright polishing.
Cau edging machine
The more important difference between all these straight line edging machines is the speed. With an addition of one diamond wheel (difference between an 8 spindles and a 10 or 11 spindles) we increase the speed about 40% or 50%. (To give an idea, on 10 mm thickness with 8 spindles you can edge with a speed between 1,8 and 2 meters per minute. With a 10 spindles you can reach 2,8 meters and more than 3 meters per minute with an 11 spindles.
The other differences between a 10/11 spindles and an 8 spindles.
-In case a spindle is out of order with a 10/11 spindles toy can go on working, only reducing the speed. With an 8 spindles you have to stop working and to wait to repair the out of order spindle.
-For important thicknesses (19 mm or more) you can polish with felt + water with cerium oxide which improves a lot the polishing quality.
Others parameters to have a look.
-Maximum thickness in case you edge laminating glass.
-Maximum machine acceptable weight for the glass to be processed, always mainly in case of laminating glass processing.
-The elements for productivity.
-The way to detect and adjust the polishing wheels wearing.
-The oiling (manual or automatic)
-The rapidity and accuracy to adjust the diamond wheels ( wearing and change)
-The maintenance
For this kind of machines, the offer is huge with big technical and purchase prices differences.
The machines comparison proposes 25 technical data, 15 trade marks and 66 machines from 15000 euros up to more than 100 000 euros
Chinese machines
They produce 2 different kinds of machines. One for their own market, the other for export. Even the last one are rustic. The Europeen service network is generally very weak.
Be careful also in this case about CE rules
