Klippfeld Lathes and milling machines

[PekkaNFParticipant @pekkanf]

Hello,

 

One day (hopefully soon) I’ll be buying another lathe and a milling machine.

 

I probably would be better off with light ex-industrial machine, but I never find one decent one!

 

I have set my eyes on this Klippfeld, because they are still made in EU and apparently they do them on one location. The english in the site is even worse than mine, I really can’t grasp the crux of the machines, but if I read them right, they look good. Shipping cost might limit my willinness to buy them, but I really have a soft spot on any Eropean made machine tool.

 

Has anyone have these lathes and particulary milling machines?

 

How do they compare?

 

I’ll be going to Austria for a short thip and it looks like it would only be 15 km diversion.

 

PekkaNF

[PekkaNFParticipant @pekkanf]

Anyone useing these Austrian machine tools

[PekkaNFParticipant @pekkanf]

Hello,

 

Went to visit Klippfeld (near Wiena, Austria) last friday. It was really small factory with a truck loads of lathe castings etc. Very small scale. Pretty much everything else seem to made on the premises, except motors, linear rails/runners and electronics. Lathes looked actually very sturdy in real life. Whole lot bigger than I tought of.

 

I went to see the milling machines. I saw only one small milling machine, they didn’t have the bigger one on the display. The small one is too small for me and it looks like it’s more of a drill than a mill. Pretty nice feel tought. Smalles cross table is small, bigger ones are more reasonable size.

 

Nearly 50% of the machines and parts under manufature were equipped with linear bearings during my visit.

 

If I were lookking for a western make model engineering plain bed lathe, I would have a second look on these ones. They seem to have very sound basic contruction. One model I checked briefly had all the normal necessities and was very rigid. Only one thing I didn’t expect was that cross feed had 60 decree M12 instead of acme. There seemed to be good finnish on only those parts that had to mate, ohers we left as they come out of the machine. I prefer it, instead on someone “cleaning” with hand file and/or sandin paper/flap disc. Every control I tried had a very nice feel to it, very much better than the chinese made stuff. Running sound was very low level and pleasant..

 

Anyone using these? K-10 or F-10 or F-12?

http://www.klippfeld.at/index_en.html

 

PekkaNF

[Vincent PETRINIParticipant @vincentpetrini10057]

Hi pekkanf,

Sorry To up this post but i need some information about klippfeld's product.

I'm currently looking for new machines (lathe & milling machine) and the K10B looks very good.

Did you finally bought from klippfeld ? And in case of yes, what's your feeling about the products ?

Many thanks

Vince

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

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Neil

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