Hi everybody
I have seen right angle head attachments for VMC's before on the web and in catalogues. The ones where they can be placed in and out of the turret by the toolchanger and are driven by the spindle with a pin to the side that goes into the stop block beside the spindle nose to keep them in place.
Not the kind of attachment like this cool fluid driven one... http://www.commandtool.com/coldset/newaxis.cfm
I couldn't use this kind because the through spindle will not go without the spindle rotating and the spindle is not positionable in a c-axis kind of way.
My question is this...Does anyone out there have any web links to dealers that sell any tooling that perform the same way but is a slotter instead? I saw a catalogue with one in it once but it was a while ago and I don't know if it can be stored in the VMC's turret after use.