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Aluminum Scalper

The Basic requirements for a successful scalping system are well established and well known. The most successful aluminum ingot scalping machines must have the following:


• Rigid heavy duty construction to withstand high horsepower cuts and the conditions of a mill environment.

• Effective lubrication to provide for maximum bearing life and to minimize wear on guide surfaces.

• High cutting speed to take advantage of advanced cutter designs that are necessary to produce an exceptionally smooth mirror-like surface.

• Robust spindle construction and cutting head design that will provide the stability for these high finishes without the necessity for extensive bearing maintenance.

• Fail-safe systems to eliminate and/or minimize potential operational damage that can remove the scalper from production.

Ingersoll's extremely rigid cutting tools and robust spindle construction, coupled with our exclusive adaptive machine control system, allow machining of ingots with up to 45 mm of face stock in a single pass. The stepped placement of roughing and finishing blades in the cutting tool minimizes the requirement for the critical finishing knives to pass through the segregation layer. The results are longer finishing knife life and better surface finishes. It also eliminates the need for a wide selection of cutting tables to be resident in the machine’s programmable controller, greatly simplifying operations. Only three parameters are required for face scalping and these are only rarely changed. These parameters are:

1. Percent of load permissible on the spindle drive motor
2. Maximum permissible feed rate
3. Depth of cut below the low point measured on the ingot

Ingersoll's aluminum Ingot Scalping Machines include edge scalping heads with the single vertical spindle. We are confident the Ingersoll Scalping System will best meet your requirements for productivity, dependability, and efficiency.


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