Category Disintegrating Heads

Comparing Electro Arc disintegrating heads

Electro Arc’s Arc-er portable disintegrating head

Arc-er Head in action

The Arc-er head is ideal for portable use. You can use it with portable or tabletop metal disintegrators. You can also use the Arc-er head with machine tools like CNC machines, Bridgeport, Radial drill, lathe or mill, and directly on the workpiece. This head operates at any angle. You can remove broken tooling from .079 to 3/4 inches in a single pass.

The Arc-er head is standard with the following machines:

2-S
2-SB
2-SE
2-SET
2-SA
3-S

In September of 1998, the Arc-er head was introduced as an upgrade for the previous LBH head. Although similar in design and use, the Arc-er head features an LED current monitoring system to assist you in maintaining optimal use of your Arc-er head and saves on electrode consumption.

You can also purchase the ultra-compact mini-mag 800 lb fixture or the portable magnetic base fixture which attaches to ferrous surfaces and provides 3000 lb holding power for use with your arc-er head. You can expect reliable heavy-duty service with your Arc-er Head which is designed to remove taps, drills, and studs up to 1″ diameter.

Electro Arc’s IQ Precision Disintegrator Head

IQ head on our test stand

The IQ precision disintegrator head is a high-performance head engineered for heavy-duty use. You can use this head horizontally or vertically. Thermal protection prevents any potential damage from overheating. You can use the IQ head to remove taps, bolts, drills, and fasteners up to 1″ in a single pass.

The IQ head is a standard feature for the following metal disintegrators:

2-SQT

2-DV

2-DVQ

2-DVT

2-DVQT

1-SV

1-SVT

1-SVQ

1-SVQT

HK-6V

The IQ head body enables smooth movement with 9″ of manual or automatic travel. This head is ideal for small taps from 0-80 or extremely large taps such as 2-inch taps or larger bolts such as 1 1/4-inch bolts and up. If you need to disintegrate carbide, look at the Servo head below:

Electro Arc’s Servo Disintegrator Head

Servo Head test burn

A high-performance disintegrating head, engineered for heavy-duty precision use. You can use this with electrodes from .020 inches to 1-inch diameter. You can use this machine to take out broken tooling including taps, bolts, drills, fasteners, etc. from 2# diameter in a single pass. Larger diameters are handled with multiple passes.

The Servo DC disintegrator head is standard on all of our DC machines.

We offer the full-size servo disintegrating head and a mini servo disintegrating head. The servo head is specially designed for heavy-duty use and comes standard with our most powerful machine, the Bolt Eater. This head disintegrates broken bolts 2 inches or larger. The mini servo DC disintegrator head is ideal for portable disintegration giving you ease of use at all angles and in small spaces.

Not sure what disintegrating head is best for your application? Try out our Machine Builder!

What’s the difference between the LBH head and Arcer Disintegrating Head?

In November of 1966, Electro Arc announced the LBH head. A new fast-cutting disintegrator head for removing broken drills and taps. The model LBH disintegrating head incorporated a bearing-mounted, hardened shaft that increases cutting speed by providing extra rigidity. Simple construction reduced the amount of maintenance this head would need to the bare minimum. This head provided you with the option of disintegrating at any angle. You could disintegrate with electrodes from .010 up. At the time, this head was standard for Electro Arc metal disintegrators including the 3-S and 1-S.

The LBH head on portable disintegrator holding fixture

The LBH head is now obsolete. In September of 1998, Electro Arc released its replacement the Arc-er head. Now standard on a number of our portable and tabletop machines, the Arc-er head can also be used in a number of machine configurations. This upgraded head features a current monitor for ease of use. This feature allows you to easily determine when to adjust your disintegration.

The Arc-er head was introduced in 1998

Disintegrating head applications allow you to easily use the Arc-er head with a number of our metal disintegrators. Check out the configurations for your Arc-er head below. You can use the Arc-er Head with a number of machines in your shop. You can also use the Arc-er head directly on your workpiece. We also offer magnetic fixtures for use with your Arc-er disintegrating head.

IQ Head Adjustment on a Metal Disintegrator

Below is a transcription of the above video. If you have any questions about our broken drill, tap, and spark erosion machines then contact us on our contact page.

In this video we are going to demonstrate how to restore your IQ head back to the 20,000 factory setting for this is necessary when you realize that your IQ head is not operating optimally but this can be demonstrated and duplicated by pulling down on the Chuck lock nut and focusing right here on the collar at the top of the spindle assembly.  If you just pull straight down you will notice that there is to much play or too little or none at all. We are going to rotate it counterclockwise, once you get it to come to a complete stop stop you’re going to rotate it clockwise 1/3 turn while we do our 1/3 turn we are going to tighten back down the screw on the collar and this should get us right back to the 20,000 factory setting. There is one more step that we are going to take, moving you up top on the spindle and show you how to adjust the spring. In this segment we are going to show you how to set the spring adjustment for optimal head vibration and we do this by first of all making sure that we have our power stroke set at 100%.  We want to turn on our head vibration. We want to take our Allen wrench turn clockwise, to decrease spring tension. During our rotating here we are paying close attention to how the sound is resonating.  We want a nice smooth sound coming from the machine. The second component is it should be difficult to stall the machine by pushing upon  the brass fitting, it sounds like we’re almost there. so now that we achieved the optimal head vibration, we take our button head screw, here we go ahead and wait make sure that the slot on the spring adjustment is in line and it appears as though it is.  We make sure we put that back in place and now we have achieved setting the head at the 20,000 factory setting and fine-tuning it for optimal head vibration and you can enjoy smooth operation of your metal disintegrator.  You can also refer to your manual we have pictures and instructions detailing how to adjust your IQ head.

Electro Arc was purchased by Stillion Industries in 2019.  You can still access old Metal Disintegration troubleshooting videos like this one, we also have a new YouTube channel and a website for machine owners with resources at metal-disintegrators.com

 

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