Fortune 3VK VERTICAL MACHINING CENTER

Technical Description

This vertical machining center features a **50" x 10" manual table** supporting workpieces up to **1,000 lbs**, optimized for medium-duty machining. It employs a **vertical spindle with an R8 taper**, optionally compatible with #30 taper tooling, spun at speeds up to **4,200 RPM** powered by a **3 HP motor (30-minute rating)**. The spindle's R8 taper, widely used in Bridgeport-style mills, ensures secure, drawbar-tightened tool holding with approximately a 16.26° taper angle, providing good rigidity for a variety of end mills and tooling. The machine provides **3-axis travel**, with **Y and Z axes each capable of 16" movement**, enabling versatile milling, drilling, and plunge cutting. The **tool capacity is single-tool manual carrier**, allowing quick manual tool changes with zero chip-to-chip time. The feed system moves the table at calculated rates for precise control, though rapid traverse rates are unspecified. Overall, this setup suits manual or semiautomatic vertical milling operations where moderate table size and workholding capacity are needed alongside standard R8 tooling, ideal for job shop environments or prototyping requiring vertical spindle configuration and solid mechanical reliability.