Fooke ENDURA 400LINEAR

Fooke designed the ENDURA 400LINEAR for shops that live mainly in plastics. The Fooke ENDURA 400LINEAR is the smallest compact gantry in the ENDURA range: a 5-axis milling machine with 2,700 mm (106.3 in) of X, a choice of 2,000 / 3,000 mm in Y and 1,200 mm (47.2 in) of Z, for large workpieces in plastics, CFRP/GFRP, modeling block material and aluminum.

Its spindles show the intent. The page lists milling heads 10 and 11 only. Milling head 10 carries an HSK-A63 spindle of 24 kW at 21,000 rpm with 39.1 Nm. Milling head 11 offers 20 kW at 30,000 rpm with 21.5 Nm, or 34 kW at 24,000 rpm with 40 Nm. None of these is a roughing spindle for ferrous metal, and cast iron and steel are absent from the material list. For those, the Fooke ENDURA 700LINEAR adds milling head 4 with a 42 kW, 67 Nm option.

The structure differs from the larger compact models as well. Bed, side walls, gantry and Z beam are all stress-relieved welded steel, with no cast components named. That keeps mass down, which suits linear motors: X and Y run at 5 - 90,000 mm/min and Z at 5 - 80,000 mm/min, with acceleration up to 5 m/sec².

Accuracy is slightly looser in X than in the other axes, 0.020 mm against 0.015 mm, with a position scatter of 0.015 mm in X and 0.010 mm in Y and Z.

Fooke pays attention to keeping parts clean. Guides and counterweight cylinders have a collecting system for excess lubricant so that workpieces are not soiled, a detail that matters on laminate and on model surfaces that will be painted. The machine stands on an industrial floor approx. 200 mm to 300 mm thick without a special foundation.