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Clay Matthews has published poetry in journals such as the Southern Review, diode, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast
, and elsewhere. His most recent book, Shore was published by Cooper Dillon Books in 2016. His other books are Superfecta (Ghost Road Press, 2008), RUNOFF (BlazeVox, 2009), and Pretty, Rooster (Cooper Dillon, 2010). He currently lives in Elizabethtown, KY and teaches at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College.
Four-Way Lug Wrench carries us down a dusty road in a rusty beater sprung through with daffodils. There where memory never settles, the driver grips the wheel with hands thick with garden dirt, engine oil, and chicken grease. Each poem – welded together – a song of strength. This gritty beautiful ride holds still all that is passed, for a moment, in a landscape all so familiar and strange at once. ~Jan LaPerle
A well-traveled route where a Four-way Lug Wrench comes in handy from time to time, but which end to use? The one that fits. Clay Matthews hands us a sack full of colorful characters and settings and questions as to why we are on the road we never asked for when we already know we’re at the destination. ~Mick Kennedy, Editor, The Heartland Review
October and peppermint
schnapps, the sound of baseball
on the radio.
Sometimes the silence stops
everything for a moment: catcalls
and leaves rustling, the hum of tires
down the road’s curve, an old Buick
turning over, and Godammit all to hell
heard from a window. One year you stopped
listening to classic rock altogether.
The next year an old song became holy again
because you remembered: pain and dreams,
twenty-two and a ridiculous guitar solo
so right for being so long. I drive
a backroad and think of Williams’s
young housewife and the difference
between perversity and beauty; the leaves
break perfectly like so many
other dying things. It’s a long time now
you’ve spent not listening. Go on
and let it all break your heart again.
Hash-browns on the griddle, and two booths over
a woman writes something down on her napkin,
nodding, she is right about this one, she’s sure.
Outside in suspenders and hats and jeans tucked inside
boots they go around and thump the tires with the iron.
Today is not the day you fall down in front of everyone
on your knees and ask for forgiveness. I’ve seen a man
beg to be beaten—he thought he wanted it and because
he wanted it I would not give it to him. Racing papers,
coffee, the hands of a little girl all over the candy machine.
Return to me, she says. People pump gas, wash windows,
pop their hoods and check the oil and crows
make large passing shadows, ticking across the lot
as time ticks across the face of a clock, and yet that is not
right either, that is too easy, we have all come here to wait
for something to die and to eat. More silverware, please.
We’ve got forks and knives and so now we begin to cut.
This is what we call a stop. An exit. A big bright place
in the middle of nowhere, and they come rolling in
on eighteen wheels, and they come rolling in on the rims
of minivans, children crying, and they come rolling in
in big Impalas blaring music and they have rolled in
to stretch, refill the tank, buy a cheap rose at the counter
for some woman, a lighter for some man, we are here
looking inside the glass coolers, wiping the fog away,
thirsty and hungry and tired and long—not there yet,
but getting there, not gone yet but not quite here.
Another spring rain about which I have nothing
new to say, only yes and thank you and sadness;
I get in the car to drive around and let the dust
of another week wash away, and play The Temptations
“I Wish It Would Rain”—both because of the temptation
and the rain, the what might have been, what I perhaps
wanted to be, what couldn’t be. We never stop losing.
But it is green and wet and the world has opened up
and while the world is doing this I am going inside
myself, driving down old blocks I haven’t been through
in years or perhaps have never been through—I don’t
remember anymore, I don’t remember so many things
Dear God, it’s me, am I going senile at such a young age.
And Dear God, it’s me again, what are we supposed to be
doing what is sexual what spiritual why women and men
why why and why not something else. So I listen to the song
and I listen again and drive, looking at each house, slowly,
wondering who lives there, what they fight about, what
they make love about, which small movements, which
glances, which propositions accepted properly in the early
afternoon of a rainy day.
The houses turn to smaller versions
of themselves, and then wooden versions of their brick selves,
and I as the Big Bad Wolf go backwards into the poorer part
of town, but I don’t want to blow them in and I may or may not
want Little Red Riding Hood, sashaying her way over
the sidewalk between home and the hollers of a thousand
of us men who lack either self-confidence or self-control
or a proper definition of the self as properly defined by postmodern
theory and/or theology. So I pass through the houses
and on and into a graveyard, graveyards being places I usually
stay away from I am slightly superstitious and have no definite
knowledge or faith one way or another on ghosts, but I go,
and I look, and it is green and gray and the many flowers
have closed or are closing themselves at this very minute,
while on a chain-link fence near the edge I read a sign that says:
Flower thieves will be prosecuted. Then we will all be prosecuted.
And none of us should be, either (and all of us, too). I have no
good reason, today, to be happy or sad, so I am both at once
for which I have many reasons. Sunshine, blue skies, please
go away. The wet, wet world. I see mall breaks in the clouds
and small rays shining down but no rainbows
because at this point a rainbow would just be too much.
Only pieces of light and the promise of more light
on the other side and the gray clouds so full of themselves
they could be any of us they could be me, the sound of rain
but no thunder, the sound of music but no voices, the sound
of the right person in the wrong place, the wrong moment
in the right life, and I know to you it might sound strange,
but I’ve nothing else to rely on (Dear God it’s me).
I wonder sometimes if steering wheels are just there
to mock us. And I feel terrible about the whole argument between
free will and destiny. All that I want is everything I want.
Music and rain and slight variations between the two.
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Backorderable DIN 3119 / ISO 6788
Chrome colored
With additional square SAE socket, 13/16"
OAL: 700mm
Weight: 4650g
Manufacturer Part #: 00610001070
All HEYCO tools are carefully tested before leaving their facility and carry a lifetime guarantee. Any tool indicating faults of material or workmanship will be replaced free of charge.
This does not apply to tools that have failed due to abuse, misuse, or normal wear and tear.
Return tools for warranty replacement directly to KC Tool. All returns are subject to inspection prior to replacement.
Four-sided machine ZHXM523 is designed for the production of various molded products and profiled timber, including natural moisture lumber, with a maximum section of 230*120 mm.
The machine has a heavy frame that effectively dampens the vibrations that occur during operation, and high-precision dynamically balanced heat-treated steel spindles, which are precision machined and controlled to achieve the highest quality of product processing. High wear resistance of the feeding tables is achieved by using chrome-plated steel in their manufacture. nine0005 The workpiece feed speed can be varied from 2 to 40 m/min through the use of a frequency converter (stepless speed control) and the use of a movable V-belt pulley system that allows you to set 4 constant speeds. The reliability of gripping and pulling the workpiece of any humidity is ensured by mechanical clamps of the upper feed rollers, which work flawlessly even at low temperatures, as well as by special corrugation of the rollers themselves. Moving and setting in a given position of the machine spindles is carried out according to a system of digital indicators. There is a table lubrication system to reduce the load on the feed mechanism when moving a workpiece of natural moisture.
nine0005 Optionally, the machine can be equipped with a pneumatic clamping system for the upper rollers for pressure adjustment and a kit for longitudinal sawing of the workpiece.
The quality of the machined product:
- deviation from the straightness of the base side is not more than 0.3 mm on a length of 1000 mm;
- perpendicularity of the sides of the base face of the machined workpiece is not more than 0.25 mm over a length of 100 mm;
- uniformity of the thickness and width of the processed sample of the product, not more than 0.3 mm
Technical characteristics of the machine S25-5AB
| Number of spindles, pcs. | 5 | ||
| Position of the Karpovka spindle | Lower | ||
| Spindle rotation frequency, rpm | 6000 | ||
| 230х50 | |||
| Speed speed, m/min | 2-40 | ||
| Dimensions of the workpiece with mills Ø140, mm, width/thickness | 40-260/12-230 | The minimum harvesting length during processing in the stream in the stream mm | 250 |
| The minimum length of a single blank, mm | 700 | ||
| Maximum workpiece thickness with longitudinal sawing, mm | 50 | ||
| The minimum dimensions of the product at milling stations Ø140, maxim, wire/stir0019 | 30/10 | ||
| The maximum allowance during processing by cylindrical cutters, mm | 10 | ||
| Field depth on the 1st spindle, mm | 3 | ||
| Profile depth of 2-5 spindels, mm | 30 | ||
| Cylindrical milling diameter, mm | 125-140 | ||
| The diameter of specialized cutters on vertical spindles, mm | 110-200 | ||
| Name | Number | ||
C25-5AB. 00.00.000 | Supporting | 1 | |
| C16-1A.00.028 | BECOME (Possibility of processing narrow blanks). Installation instead of the left row of feed gear rollers in the direction of the workpiece movement Installed on the molding support for profiling | 2 | |
| С25-5А.10.011-01 | Roller. Installed instead of feed gear rollers for processing narrow workpieces | 2 | |
| IP.16.000 | Key. Tightening and loosening the nut fixing the tool on the spindle | 1 | |
| IP.17.000 | Tightening and loosening the nut fixing the tool on the spindle. Ease of work with the right vertical support | 1 | |
| IP.35.000 | Set of rings. Spacers on spindle shafts to accommodate tools of various lengths | 6 | |
| DIN468-160-V17 | Handle. Movement of calipers in the horizontal and vertical direction. Loosen and tighten set screws | 1 | |
| Key 7812-1606 Chem. Oks. Prm. GOST 25787-83 | 1 | ||
| Anti-noise headphones COM 3 GOST 12.4.051-87. Delivery is carried out during the manufacture of the machine without ZIO, it is allowed to replace it with 14353M | 1 | ||
| С25-4А.12.500 | Additional support (processing of a workpiece with a width of more than 160 mm by the lower horizontal spindle) | 1 | |
| С25-4А.15.500-02 | Additional support. Processing of a workpiece over 160 mm with an upper horizontal spindle | 1 | |
| С25-4А.15.500-06Н | Additional support. Machining of a workpiece with a width of more than 160 mm with a molding lower horizontal spindle | 1 | |
| S25-5AB RE | 0019|||
| Electors 15 kW | Installation of high-power electric motors on the 2nd and 3rd (vertical) calipers | 70 000 | |
C25-5AB. 70.000 Pneumatic SCREMIC SYSTEMS | SURPOSITION OF THE SURPOSITION | 120 000 | |
| Jointer for the 5th spindle | To remove the residual deviation of the knives from the cutting diameter | 210 | 70 |
Constant supply speeds:
| Transfer | Formation speed with emergency | 1st | -I10 | 5 ... 20 |
| 3rd | 13 | 6 ... 26 | 1 | 9 ... 40 |
SAMS CO25-5AB certificate of conformity. nine0005 Warranty period 12 months from the date of commissioning by the manufacturer.
Heavy series, five-spindle machine.
The C25-5A series machine is designed for the production of various molded products and profiled timber, including natural moisture.
Features and contents:
The processed lumber corresponds to the following parameters:
| Main technical specifications for machine mod. C25-5A | Options |
| Number of spindles, pcs. | 5 |
| Moulder spindle position | Top/bottom |
| Spindle speed, rpm | 6000 |
| Mounting dimensions of horizontal spindles, length x diameter, mm | 260 x 50 |
| Mounting dimensions of vertical spindles, length x diameter, mm (in brackets - on request) | 170 x 40 (170 x 50) |
| Feed speed, m/min | 2-40 |
| Workpiece dimensions, mm (for cutters Ø140) | |
| - width | 35-260 |
| - thickness | 12-160 |
| - minimum length when processing in thread | 250 |
| - minimum length of single piece | 700 |
| Maximum thickness of the workpiece for longitudinal sawing, mm | 50 |
| Minimum product dimensions, mm (for cutters Ø140 mm) | |
| - width | 30 |
| - thickness | 10 |
| Maximum allowance when machining with cylindrical cutters on the 1st spindle, mm | 8 |
| Maximum allowance for cylindrical cutters, mm | 7 |
| Profiling depth, mm (profile depth max 3 mm on the 1st spindle) | 30 |
| Installable cylindrical cutters, mm | Ø125…140 |
| Installable profile cutters on vertical spindles, mm | Ø110…200 |
| Mountable profile cutters on horizontal spindles, mm | Ø110…200 |
| Installed saws, mm | Ø250 |
| Electric / motor power of the 1st spindle, kW | 7. 5 |
| Electric / motor power of the 2nd spindle, kW | 7.5 |
| Electric / motor power of the 3rd spindle, kW | 7.5 |
| Electric / motor power of the 4th spindle, kW | 11.0 |
| Electric / motor power of the 5th spindle, kW | 11.0 |
| Feed electric/motor power, kW | 4.0 |
| Lifting electric/engine power, kW | 1.1 |
| Total machine power (rounded), kW | 50 |
| Suction outlet diameter, mm | DN150 |
| Required suction capacity, m3/h | 5 x 2000 |
| Overall dimensions of the machine, mm | |
| - length | 4800 |
| - width | 1500 |
| - height | 2000 |
| Machine weight, t | 5. 2 |
Notes:
- profile cutters are not mounted on the lower support
| Completeness | |||
| Designation | Description | Number | |
| С25-5А.00.000 | Complete machine | 1 | |
| C16-1A.00.028 | Sleeve (possibility of processing narrow workpieces). Installation instead of the left row of feed rollers in the direction of the workpiece | 10 | |
| С25-5А.11.021-03 | Stove. Mounted on a molding support for profiling. | 2 | |
С25-5А. 10.011-01 | Roller. Installed instead of feed rollers for processing narrow workpieces | 1 | |
| C25-5A.11.020 | Fencing. Mounted on a molding support for profiling. | ||
| IP.16.000 | nine0622 Key. Tightening and loosening the nut fixing the tool on the spindle.1 | ||
| IP.17.000 | Key. Tightening and loosening the nut fixing the tool on the spindle. Ease of use with the right vertical caliper. | 1 | |
| IP.35.000 | Ring set. Spacers for horizontal spindle shafts for the possibility of installing wood cutting tools of various lengths. | nine0787 3 ||
| IP.36.000 | Ring set. Spacers on vertical spindle shafts for the possibility of installing wood cutting tools of various lengths. | 2 | |
| DIN468-160-V17 | Handle. Movement of calipers in the horizontal and vertical direction. Loosening and tightening the locking screws. | 1 | |
| Key 7812-1606 D Chem. Oks. prm. GOST 25787-83 | 1 | ||
| Anti-noise earmuffs COM 3 GOST 12.4.051-87. Delivery is carried out during the manufacture of the machine without ZIO, replacement for 14353M | is allowed1 | ||
C25-4A. 12.500 | Additional support (processing of a workpiece with a width of more than 160 mm with a lower horizontal spindle) | 1 | |
| С25-4А.15.500-02 | Additional support. Machining workpieces over 160 mm with an upper horizontal spindle. nine0019 | 1 | |
| С25-4А.15.500-06 V/N | Additional support. Machining workpieces with a width of more than 160 mm with a molding lower horizontal spindle. | 2 | |
| S25-5A RE | Instruction Manual | 1 | |
| Optional replacement parts and accessories (extra charge) | |||
| Sound barrier | Personnel protection against noise vibrations. | 1 | |
| Electric motors 2.3 spindles 11 kW | Installation of high power motors on vertical calipers. | kit | |
| Electric motors 2.3 spindles 15 kW | Installation of high power motors on vertical calipers. | kit | |
| Wooden packing box | 1 | ||
| Vibration mount | Foundation mount | 8 | |
| C25-5A.70.000 | Pneumatic clamping system. Simplifies pressure adjustment of pressure rollers. | kit | |
C25-5A. 11.100 | Stove. Installation of saws for longitudinal sawing of the workpiece on the molding support. | 2 | |
| С25-5А.11.100-01 | Stove. Installation of saws for longitudinal sawing of the workpiece on the molding support. | 1 | |
| С16-1А.17.024-01 | Rolling pin. Installation on the molding support of the upper clamp C16-2A.33.000. | 1 | complete |
| С16-2А.33.000 | Upper clamp. Machining thin workpieces and sawing with a moulder. | nine0985 1||
| C16-1A.17.034 | Flange. Installation on the molding support of the upper clamp C16-2A. 33.000. | 1 | |
| Pin 6x60 GOST 3129-70 | Installation on the molding support of the upper clamp C16-2A.33.000. | 1 | |
| Screw М6-6gх2.56.05 GOST 11738-84 | Installation on the molding support of the upper clamp C16-2A.33.000. | 4 | |
| IP.07.000 | Right collet mandrel. Possibility of mounting a wood cutting tool with a bore diameter of 60 mm on the upper horizontal spindle. | 1 | |
| IP.07.000-02 | Right collet mandrel. Possibility of mounting a wood cutting tool with a bore diameter of 60 mm on the right vertical spindle. | 1 | |
IP. 08.000 | Left collet mandrel. Possibility of mounting a wood cutting tool with a bore diameter of 60 mm on the moulder spindle. nine0019 | 1 | |
| IP.08.000-02 | Left collet mandrel. Possibility of mounting a wood cutting tool with a bore diameter of 60 mm on the left vertical spindle. | 1 | |
| IP.21.000-02 | Attachment for setting blades of prefabricated cutters. Installing knives in wood cutting cylindrical planer drums with a diameter of 140 mm | 1 | |
| Bolt 1.1.M20X330. St3 GOST 24379.1-80 | Foundation bolt. If vibration mounts | are not purchased8 | |
The range and quantity of wood cutting tools supplied with the machine is determined according to the supply agreement (including cylindrical cutters). | |||
The suction system is purchased at the rate of 2000 cu. m/h per machine support.
The machine complies with the current GOSTs and TU for this group of goods, which is confirmed by the presence of a certificate of conformity and marks of the manufacturer. nine0003
The supplied equipment is guaranteed for 12 months from the date of commissioning by the manufacturer or the representative of the plant (dealer).
The cost of commissioning is calculated for each client individually.
Basic data
Electric drive.
Spindle braking electrodynamic, direct current.
| Caliper movements | |||||
| MM | LOWER | RIGHT | LEFT | UPPER | MOLDER |
| Horizontal | 15 | 30 | 200 | 30 | 30 |
| Vertical | 15 | 25 | 25 | 210 | 340 |
Feed drive
The workpiece feeder is driven by an electric motor (1).
The drive for feeding from the electric motor to the module shaft is organized by a pulley (2) on the motor shaft and a pulley (3) on the splined shaft (4) of the modules (5). Pulleys 2-stage, 3-strand with the use of common V-belts A-1000 III GOST 1284.1-88 (6).
The pulley on the splined shaft of the modules is free to move, allowing 4 permanent gears. In combination with a frequency converter installed in the electrical cabinet of the machine and changing the speed of rotation of the electric motor, the total speed range obtained is from 2 to 40 m/min. Tensioning, loosening or rearrangement of the belts is done by removing the guard (7) and turning the threaded screw (8). nine0003
| 1st gear. | 2nd gear. |
| 3rd gear.  |
