Steady Rest for Grinding

Arms grinding steady rest is an apt design for holding long slender cylindrical jobs. This steady can be specially used in CNC as well as mannual grinding machine by it’s compatibility of programming & interfacing with the cnc system. Arms steady rests are designed to get optimum result in accurate grinding of long slender jobs .Arms steady rests are designed for getting high productivity by eliminating rejection and the setting time of manual steady rests.Arms steady rests are designed according to the customers’ requirement of job sizes. These are hydraulically operated steady rests. Side mounted and rear mounted cylinder designs are also available according to the bed design of machine.Arms steady rests are at par to the international standard by manufacturing & design yet very competitive in price ! These steady rests are dimensionally interchangeable with any other similar models available in the market.

Application

• Machining of Long Slender Shafts
• Automatic Holding of Jobs In CNC grinding Machines.
• Crank Shaft Machining
• For Grinding Applications

Salient Features

• The Steady Rest Can Be Used For Any Machine Including CNC grinders With a Suitable Bracket
• The Steady Can Also Be Used As A Travelling Steady Hence No Need Of A Follower Rest !!!
• High centering accuracy because *real cam technology* used
• Pass through grinding possible
• Continues support while part being ground
• Repeatability Is Within 2 Microns !!!!!!!!

Working principle

The steady rest consists of 3 arms assembled in a steel body with carbide pads at the arms for holding the work piece. The centre one brings the other two arms in a circular movement to hold the center of the work piece .This helps to get the repeatability, consistency and centering accuracy The centre arm is operated by a hydraulic,pneumatic cylinder or servo motor.

TYPES OF GRINDING STEADY REST

• Hydraulic Self Centering Steady rest with rear mounted cylinder
• Pneumatic Self Centering Steady rest
• Self Centering Steady rest with servo control
• Hydraulic Self Centering steady rest for crank shaft grinding
• Hydraulic Self Centering steady rest for cam shafts
• Hydraulic Self Centering steady rest for vertical loading

STANDARD RANGE OF GRINDING STEADY REST ARE THE FOLLOWING

MODEL NO.	DIAMETER RANGE	APPLICATIONS
AGU 1	10 to 30mm	FOR NORMAL GRINDING APPLICATION
AGU 2	20 to 60mm
AGUV 1	10 to 30mm	FOR NORMAL GRINDING APPLICATION WITH VERTICAL LOADING
AGUV 2	20 to 60mm
ACU 1/ACUV1	40 to 70mm	FOR CRANK SHAFT GRINDING APPLICATION WITH OR WITH OUT VERTICAL LOADING
ACU 2/ACUV2	45 to 110mm
ACU 3/ACUV3	70 to 150mm
ACU 4/ACUV4	50 to 200mm

How ever the steady rest can be designed as per customer’s requirement