Amada Apelio III 2610V
Turret Sleeving

Amada Apelio III 2610V at a glance

Era

2001

Tonnage

33 ton

Stations

58

Turret

Thick turret

Control

Fanuc 16-L

The Apelio line is Amada’s punch-laser combination series, built from the 1990s and long out of production. A combination machine still carries a conventional turret, and those stations wear exactly as they do on a punch press — the laser head changes nothing about the punching side.

Where this machine is in its life

A Apelio III 2610V from 2001 sits in the sweet spot for restoration. It is old enough to have accumulated real turret wear, and modern enough that the rest of the machine has plenty of working life in it. Nothing about its capability has been superseded for most sheet metal work.

Shops running these machines are usually not looking to replace them — they are looking to stop scrapping parts.

How a Apelio III 2610V turret wears

At 33 tons, the Apelio III 2610V sits in the workhorse band — mixed duty, mixed material, and usually the machine a shop reaches for first. That versatility is also why its turret wears: it runs the widest range of work, and the stations holding the most-used tools take a disproportionate share of the hits.

With 58 stations, work is spread across a wide turret, which is why wear on these machines is so rarely uniform. In practice a handful of stations carry the common tools and wear out well ahead of the rest. Most Apelio III 2610V jobs are partial as a result — the worn stations are sleeved and the sound ones are left alone, which keeps both cost and downtime down.

The tell is always the same: the fault stays with the station rather than following the tool. Move a tool that is producing bad parts to another station — if it runs clean there, the bore is worn, and new tooling will not change that. See holes out of round or burring on punched parts for the full diagnosis.

What sleeving a Apelio III 2610V involves

Each worn bore is machined to a precise oversize and a hardened USA-made steel sleeve is pressed in with an interference fit, restoring the station to Amada factory tolerance — typically within 0.0002″. Engineers travel to you; the Apelio III 2610V never ships. 2–3 days of downtime, typically $8,000–$25,000 depending on scope. After the first install your own maintenance staff can replace sleeves in future.

Set against $100,000–$500,000+ for a replacement machine — see sleeve or replace, including where replacing genuinely wins.

Is the Apelio III 2610V a thick or thin turret machine?

The Apelio III 2610V is a thick turret machine. Thick and thin describe the turret, not automatically the tooling — the two are quoted separately, and a machine has to be identified on both counts before sleeves or tooling are ordered.

Tonnage will not tell you either: several 22-ton Amada machines run thick turrets. If you are not certain what your press carries, send us the model and serial number and we will confirm it. See also thick vs thin turret and how Amada model numbers work.

How the Apelio III 2610V compares

These machines are easy to mix up, and the difference matters when you are quoting a turret job. Against the other Apelio models we cover:

• Amada Apelio — control Fanuc, era 1990s.
• Amada Apelio II 357 — control Fanuc 05PLA, era 1992-98.
• Amada Apelio III 357V — era 1997-2001.
• Amada Apelio III 367V — tonnage 30 ton, era 1999-2003.
• Amada Apelio III 2510V — control Fanuc FS-16LB.
• Amada EML-2515 AJ — control AMNC 3i, era 2018-present.
• Amada LC-2515 AJ — tonnage 22 ton, control AMNC NT, era 2010s.

Sleeving is the same process across all of them. What changes is scope, and scope follows station count and how hard the machine has been run.

The Fanuc 16-L control

The Apelio III 2610V runs the Fanuc 16-L. Many are still serviceable and there is no reason to touch a control that is doing its job. It is worth knowing that a FANUC retrofit is available if yours becomes a problem, and that it is far cheaper done alongside turret work than as its own project later.