Honor Seiki VL-66M

On paper the Honor Seiki VL-66M gives up envelope in two directions compared with its neighbour. Turning diameter is 700 mm (27.5 in) and turning height 650 mm (25.5 in), while the VL-66A/AR reaches 760 mm (29.9 in) and 750 mm (29.5 in). Swing is the same 800 mm (31.4 in), and so are the 457 mm (18 in) chuck, the 25-2,000 rpm spindle, the 12 tool positions and the 650 kg (1,433 lb) load limit.

A smaller cutting envelope inside an unchanged swing usually means something larger is mounted where the tools are. Honor Seiki's page stops short of saying what. The M suffix is not defined there, and the VL-66M column has no live spindle row of the kind the Heavy Duty table gives the VL-66CM. Treat the M as a configuration to be confirmed, and ask what tooling system the 12 positions accept.

For sizing a job the numbers are clear enough. A blank must fit within 800 mm of swing, be cut within 700 mm, stand no taller than 650 mm and weigh no more than 650 kg with its jaws. That covers a wide run of gear blanks, pump covers, valve bodies and wheel hubs.

Standard equipment is the same list as the rest of the VL-66 page: hydraulic 3-jaw chuck with rotary cylinder, coolant through the turret, bed wash down, hinge type chip conveyor, spindle orientation and automatic lubrication. The option list adds a spindle motor upgrade, a dual speed gearbox, a servo turret, X/Z axis encoders and a choice of a 31i series CNC or a Siemens controller. Motor power and axis travels are not printed.