Thank you for your having purchased the machine, favoring our product lines for your use.
This manual contains fundamental information on the specification. Please read and fully understand
the contents for your safe machine operation.
In particular , the contents of the items concerning safety in this manual and the descriptions on the
“caution plates” attached to the machine are important. Please follow the instructions contained
and keep them always in mind to ensure safe operation.
The reference record papers on adjusting setting values such as a parameter list are attached to
the machine unit and enclosed in the packing. These are necessary for maintenance and
adjustment of the machine later on. Please keep them safely not to be mislaid.
The design and specifications of this machine may be changed to meet any future improvement.
As the result, there may arise some cases where explanations in this manual could become partly
inconsistent with the actual machine. Please note this point in advance.
In this manual, items on the standard and optional specifications are handled indiscriminately.
Please refer to the “delivery note” for the detailed specification of your machine confirmation.
CONTENTS
1. GENERAL PRECAUTION..................................................................... 1- 1
1-1 Precautions on Machine Operation ........................................................................1-1
1-2 Electric Equipment and NC Unit .............................................................................1-4
General descriptions is very useful for making working environment against accidents and
increase productivity.
1.Be sure to put safety goggles on.
2.Be sure to put safety shoes on.
3.Operate with proper dressing, such as putting a utility cap on, fixing the sleeves and the
cuffs of working clothes.
4.Don’t operate the machine with gloves.
5.Make clean and neat environment by lighting up and keeping dry around the machine.
Also don’t put any obstacles.
6.Remove dust and chips on the machine, high voltage control panel and NC unit. Also
remove them on the floor. Avoid using compressed air as much as possible for these
cleanings.
7.Use a strong enough table to be put around the machine, and take anti-sliding
measures on the surface.
8.Don’t put tools, workpieces, and other items on the machine as well as on the moving
parts of the machine.
9.Don’t give any remodeling to the machine without our permission.
1-1 Precautions on Machine Operation
When conducting trial run, read the manual applied to the machine carefully for full
understanding beforehand. Witness of our operation instructor is most preferable.
Maintenance
1.An operator and maintenance personnel should read the precautions on the caution
plate fitted to the machine and observe them.
Don’t stain, damage or remove the caution plate becomes hard to read, contact Hitachi
Seiki.
2.Close all the doors and covers except when adjusting work is made.
As for the doors of the NC unit and the power control cabinet, be sure to close them with
special care.
3.Don’t remove or modify the limit switches for the stroke end, for the travelling axes and
the mechanism, or the electric circuit employed for safety.
4.Use regular wrenches and spanners for adjusting or repairing work.
5.When repairing the machine, be sure to perform lock-out or tag-out so that power switch
may not be operated.
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Coolant
This machine doesn’t mix coolant with lubrication oil by using the economy pack. But, the
soluble cutting fluid is decomposed due to the factors such as propagation of
micro-organisms, which causes various troubles by lowering cutting and rust prevention
performance.
When using soluble cutting fluid, care must be taken of the following points.
1.When selecting soluble cutting fluid, carefully consider lubrication, infiltration, rust
prevention, bubble prevention, separability against oil and safety needs.
2.Before operation starts and after operation ends, not only remove chips, but also wipe
off soluble cutting oil adhered to each slideway, the rotating parts, the saddle and crossslide of the machine and then be sure to apply lubrication oil thinly to those parts.
3.Replace soluble cutting fluid immediately if it becomes vitiated.
4.Remove the covers every 6 months and clean each slideway, X, Y, Z axes ball-screws,
each limit switch and feed motors etc.
5.As soluble cutting oil is considered for rust prevention, it may be no problem when the
workpiece is wet. However, when dry, it is apt to rust.
Therefore, it is recommendable to apply rust preventive oil before the workpiece dries
after finished machining.
6.Since soluble oil is alkalescent and has a strong decreasing action, the operator is apt to
develop dermatitis.
Therefore, the operator should take appropriate precautions.
7.As for the diluting method and soluble cutting fluid, diluting water they are different
depending on the type of soluble cutting oil, so use it in accordance with the
recommendations of the cutting fluid manufacturer.
8.Since there are instances where extensive micro-organisms are detected in industrial
water, it is recommendable either to check it before use as water for dilution or to use
service water.
9.Do not use a chemical solution type (synthetic type) in water-soluble cutting agents,
because it causes detachment of coating and affects sealing materials and resin
materials adversely.
10. The influences of difference kinds of oil on coolant are as follows: Carefully monitor the
condition the coolant fluid.
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Different kinds of oil
Mixture
(Emulsification)
Instabilization
of liquid
Density
abnormality
Propagation of
bacilli
Lowering of density
Lowering of pH
Formation of stateof
aversion
Lubrication oil
Rust preventive oil
Nutritive source of
micro-organism
Seal due to
surfacing
Adhesion to
machine
Propagation of
bacilli
Operation
1.Be aware of the position of the push button for emergency stop so that the operator may
be able to press it instantly.
2.As for the operation of the machine, proceed in accordance with the procedure
described later.
3.During operation, keep hands away from the rotating sections and movable sect ions.
4.When disposing of chips that wound round tooling or fell onto the chip brow, etc. it is
dangerous to grasp and pull them. Further, when disposing of chips, be sure to do it
after stopping the machine.
5.When adjusting the position of the coolant nozzle, do it after stopping the machine.
petrifaction,
rust & others
Tool Setting
1.When setting up tools, stop a spindle as well as the feed in each axis.
2.Be very careful of tool length when setting them up. Do not set the tools over their
specified lengths because their tool edges may interfere with a bed, carriage, cover,
tailstock, etc. when indexing a turret.
3.Mount tools in a well balance condition. Due to high-speed turret indexing when their
mounting is unbalanced, it may lead to improper turret indexing.
4.When setting a tool to the rotating tool, it is feared that the driving side may be
damaged, if it is performed in the machine.
Whenever tools are set, be sure to do it at the outside of machine.
Operation Finish
1.After operation of the machine is over, be sure to switch the power OFF in the
prescribed order, clean the machine and apply rust preventive oil to each section of the
machine such as the slide ways.
When soluble cutting fluid is used, perform these jobs with special care.
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1-2 Electric Equipment and NC Unit
When operating the machine or carrying out maintenance checks, pay special attention to the
following points, concerning the electric equipment and NC unit.
1.Do not give shocks to the NC unit, power control cabinet and other machine parts.
2.For the primary wiring of the machine, use the cable size specified in the maintenance
manual. Do not use an excessively long cabtire cable.
When the primary wiring has to be put on the floor, protect it with a cover against damage
by cutting chips and other sharp objects.
3.While test running the machine, be sure the setting parameter of the NC unit coincides with
the parameter sheet attached to the machine.
4.Do not change the current set values of thermal relays in the power control cabinet, various
control knobs or the parameter data.
5.Do not apply excessive force, e.g. bending force etc., to the connector portion of plugs,
flexible conduits (tubes) or cabtire cables etc.
6.When carrying out maintenance checks on the electric equipment, at first, turn off the
EMERGENCY STOP button on the operation panel, then turn off the power of the NC unit,
the main switch of the power control cabinet and the power switch installed in your factory,
in this order.
Start maintenance work after making sure that these switches are turned off.
Lock the power switches in the OFF state as much as possible or put up warning signs. In
additions, place a “DO NOT TOUCH” tag near the operation buttons of the machine to
forbid other personnel from operating the machine.
7.Handle electric equipment of the machine with particular care and exercise extreme caution
not to allow the machine to get wet.
8.For equipment inside the power control cabinet, use those specified by Hitachi Seiki. Use
always specified fuses. Never use fuses with a higher capacity.
9.Never leave the control cabinet door open, because direct sunshine or camera’s strobe
flash rays may enter the cabinet and damage internal equipment.
10. In case of turning on the power again, execute power on went by equal to or more than two
seconds after power turned off. If the power is turned on during discharge from control
devise by power off, pay attention to the alarm of the machine is displayed some time, due
to normal process is not available.
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1-3 Workpiece Chucking
1.When chucking a workpiece, be careful of its balance. Do not turn the spindle if the
mounting of the workpiece is unbalanced badly.
2.Use standard soft jaws. Mount the jaws so that they may stay within the outer diameter
of the chuck.
3.To set pressure of chuck cylinder, determine it referring to “Chucking Pressure-Gripping
Force Diagram”.
Take note that the chuck gripping force will be suddenly reduced due to a centrifugal
force when the spindle runs at a high speed.
4.When forming the soft jaws, pay full attention to a forming ring gripping position and a
shape to which the jaws are to be formed.
After forming, check that the jaws properly grip the workpiece and that a chucking
pressure is adequate.
5.When chucking and centering a shaft work, take special note of a workpiece weight, a
size of center hold and a thrust force.
If a heavy workpiece is held with a small center hold and a load is applied, the tip of the
center may be damaged, allowing the workpiece to jump out.
= 0.2642 U.S. gallon= 1.0567 U. S. quarts
= 0.2200 U.K. gallon= 0.02745 bushel
3
1cm
(cubic centimeter)= 0.061 cubic inch
4.Weight
1 ton (metric ton)= 0.9842 U. S. (long) ton= 2204.6 pounds
= 1.1023 U. K. (short) ton
1 kg (kilogram) = 2.2046 pounds = 35.274 ounces avoirdupois
5. Others
1 kgf/cm2 (kilogram force per square centimeter)= 14.223 pounds per square inch
= 0.098 MPa (Mega Pascal)
1 kg-m (kilogram-meter)= 7.233 foot-pounds
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2. SPECIFICATIONS
2-1 Machine Outline
This is a NC lathe with a drum type turret head. It is designed to be able to control two axes
simultaneously.
The following are the features of this machine.
1.The machine can perform chuck work and center work.
2.Infinite variable speed is available in wide range by application of AC inverter motor.
3.With a permanent tool setting as a basis, various kinds of workpiece can be machined
without modification.
4.The machine also has a diagnostic function.
5.Due to the combined structure of electric and mechanical systems.
A required floor area is reduced.
In addition, the turret head is positioned in the rear of the machine in order to improve
accessibility to the spindle and the operatability of the machine.
If optional accessories are attached, the working range of the machine can be extended further.
Construction of Machine Proper
1.Head stock
By a AC motor, variable speed in wide range
[HT200/ST200 50 ~ 5000min-1]
[HT250/ST250 42 ~ 4200min
is made available automatically.
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2.Tool post
By adopting a particular coupling method, higher indexing accuracy is guaranteed.
The servo motor drives indexing action and hydraulic pressure is used for clamping which
gives the machine certainty of the action.
3.Tailstock
The taper of the tailstock is MT No.5, and any live center on the market can be mounted.
Tailstock can be set at any position on the supporter by key operation. The thrust force can
be adjusted by oil pressure within the range of 490~7350N.
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2-2 Component Units
1 Spindle motor7 Coolant tank13 Tailstock19 Headstock
2 Z axis feed motor8 Coolant pump14 Tool post20 Bed
3 High voltage9 Oil pressure unit15 Turret21 Chuck/tailstock pressure
distribution boardadjustment manifold
4 Cross slide10 Chip box (OP)16 Foot switch for chuck