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t Ducati Motor (Bologna, Italy) they don’t believe in doing things halfway. For many years, this company’s award- winning motorcycles have been characterized by the highest levels of quality, performance, and innovation. Machining is at the heart of Ducati’s success, and when it came to optimizing a demanding new cam lobe milling application it turned to Walter AG (Tübingen, Germany; Waukesha, WI) for the winning solution.
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Ducati mechanical machining unit crew was part of a team with Walter that tackled developing a new tool for lobe milling that addressed critical aspects like high specifi c cutting pressures, a large amount of chips with adhesion, air cutting, and signifi cant sliding between tool and chip.
Nowhere is this commitment to quality more evident than in Ducati’s L-twin engine confi guration featuring its desmodromic valve design. Desmodromic valves are closed with a separate, dedicated cam lobe and lifter instead of the conventional valve springs used in most internal combustion engines. This allows the cams to have a more radical profi le, thus opening and closing the valves more quickly without the
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