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"Avia" and "Polamco" FNC25 Precision Universal Milling Machine
- by Fabryka Obrabiarek Precyzyinych -

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Avia FND-25 and FND-32 Milling Machines

If you have an FNC-25 the writer would be interested to hear from you


Equipment supplied with each new machine was sparse

Type FNCk-3 Vertical Swivel Head driven by gearing from the horizontal spindle below and with 16 speeds from 56 to 1800 r.p.m.

Type FNCi-3 High-speed Vertical Head. Driven by a 0.75 kW motor and using a V-belt, this had 6 speeds from 2000 to 6300 r.p.m. and was designed for the use of smaller cutters and (with precautions taken to protect the machine's slideways) grinding wheels.

Type FNCj Slotting Head, a unit able to be inclined 45° each side of vertical and with a maximum tool travel of 80 mm in 12 rates of stroke that varied from 18 to 224 per minute.

Rotary Table Type FNCe

Of unusually rigid design, with a dovetail overarm, the Type FNCh-3 Dividing Head was designed to hold a workpiece directly in the spindle with the aid of a drawbar, between centres, in a 3-jaw chuck - or on the 195 mm diameter Type FNCn-3 Die Mounting Plate (below)

195 mm diameter Type FNCn-3 Die Mounting Plate with four 10 mm radial T-slots and supplied complete with  a set of  finger clamps.

Optical reader head

Optical table-travel readers in place


Supplied as part of the standard equipment, and able to be bolted to the vertical, was a 280 x 750 mm Horizontal Rectangular Table with five 12 mm T-slots set on 50 mm centres.

Type FNCI-3 High-speed Vertical Head with the cutter held in the Type PTEd-40B Collet Holder

Universal Angular Table 250 x 600 mm Able to be tilted around the longitudinal axis by 30° each side of horizontal, by 30° in the same manner on the lateral axis and tilted by 45° each side of an axis perpendicular to its surface. The swivel-base machine vice was sold under the maker's Accessory number as the Type PJMa-100

Type FNCh-3 Dividing Head with 3-jaw chuck  (Type PUTm-125) being used in conjunction with the vertical table.

Type FNCk-3 Standard Vertical Swivel Head and rotary table

Type FNCj Slotting Head and a rotary table combination

Type FNCh-3 Dividing Head with 3-jaw chuck being used in conjunction with a horizontal milling arbor


Avia FNC Home Page

Avia FND-25 and FND-32 Milling Machines

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"Avia" and "Polamco" FNC25 Precision Universal Milling Machine
- by Fabryka Obrabiarek Precyzyinych -


If you have an FNC-25 the writer would be interested to hear from you