Amada Vipros 358 Queen
Turret Sleeving

Amada Vipros 358 Queen at a glance

Turret

Thick turret

The Vipros line ran 1995–2005 and is out of production. These machines are young enough to be thoroughly capable and old enough to have real turret hours on them — the most common profile we are called to.

Where this machine is in its life

Whatever its build year, the Vipros 358 Queen's upper turret station bores wear the same way: gradually, unevenly, and invisibly until hole quality starts failing inspection.

How a Vipros 358 Queen turret wears

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 Vipros 358 Queen 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 Vipros 358 Queen 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 Vipros 358 Queen a thick or thin turret machine?

The Vipros 358 Queen 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.

What the number tells you

Amada model numbers describe the machine. The Vipros 358 Queen decodes as a 30-ton class press with a 50 × 80 table — the first digit is tonnage, the other two are table width and length. Its full designation is VIPROS-305080.

The site does not record a published tonnage for this machine, but the number puts it in the 30-ton class. Send us the serial plate and we will confirm the exact specification.

How to read an Amada model number — useful when your paperwork and your badge disagree.

How the Vipros 358 Queen compares

Queen variant of the VIPROS-358 — specs to be added — that is what sets this machine apart on the spec sheet.

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

• Amada Vipros 357 — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 358 King — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 2510 King — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 358 King II — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 345 — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 255 — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 357 Queen — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 367 Queen — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 368 King — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 368 King II — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 368 Queen — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros III Z3510NT — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros Z3510 Queen — the same on paper for turret purposes.
• Amada Vipros 568 — the same on paper for turret purposes.

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.