Equally at home in the school workshop, technical college or factory, toolroom standard, flat bed range of lathes have the production capabilities and flexibility of a CNC machine.

British lathe builder Harrison has produced a new world-beating lathe, which is equally at home in the school workshop, technical college or manufacturing environment. Benefiting from an even larger swing-over-bed, as well as new production enhancements and manufacturing refinements, the new Alpha 1350S is the foundation model for Harrison's landmark S1000 range of two-axis manual/CNC lathes. Extremely easy-to-use, the Alpha S1000 series is a toolroom-standard, flat bed range of lathes with the production capabilities and flexibility of a CNC machine.

The power and sophistication of the Alpha 1350S brings, at modest cost, easy to assimilate yet extremely advanced programming and machining functions to teaching lathes.

On the other hand, it is just at home in the manufacturing workplace, providing a sophisticated, extremely productive and flexible turning platform from a modest cost base.

The Alpha 1350S incorporates the most advanced and easy-to-use CNC/manual lathe control in the world, the Alpha 1000 series control.

Specially developed for Harrison's revolutionary Alpha lathes, the new Alpha 1000 control features a 260mm (10.4 in) wide touch panel, alphanumeric keypad and a system selection key to provide effortless switching between powerful, but simple-to-use turning options.

This allows technology students to progress, with ease, from simple manual turning concepts right through to sophisticated CNC programming and machining.

A major feature of the control is its Manual Guide System, a welcome addition to the comprehensive range of operating modes already available on the Alpha range.

The Manual Guide System is a touchscreen accessible cutting program enabling the full generation of simple cutting profiles and complex automatic programs directly at the machine.

A teach facility is available, allowing hand wheel initiated moves to be recorded as a program and rerun automatically after completion of the first component, while all programs generated can be stored to memory for later use or saved to the supplied AlphaLink software.

Additionally, all programs generated in the comprehensive 'Cycle Cutting' mode may be converted to a full CNC program if required.

The Manual Guide System complements the industry proven AlphaSystem which has gained wide popularity through its flexibility and ease-of-use.

The AlphaSystem provides a semi-automatic machining capability for stops, taper turning and automatic thread cutting; and an offline CAD/CAM machining facility.

The Alpha 1350S completes a comprehensive and extremely popular Alpha S1000 range, which also includes the 1400S (400mm swing), 1460S (460mm swing) and 1550S (550 swing), and complements the established Alpha U and Alpha T ranges of lathes