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I too had 1 go there, on a Vf3 where the hose is clamped on the head, there seams to be a pinch point there. Also went on 2 lathes at a clamping point,all 3 went in 3 months.

Thanks wdomhart your info is most informing, I run the turning department and after running into the milling department and showing the man running the Haas I told him to pull his finger out and get...

Sorry to be late replying been away for a few days, WallyL7 it takes grease not oil, Haastec when we topped up the ST20 we checked the VF3 and was puzzled to find it was the canister still basically...

We have a vf3ss and a st20 bought both at the same time, After checking the grease lub on the st20 we found we was low about right after 12 months according to haas, the vf3 has hardly taken any. On...

Thanks Ken it works a treat

Thanx Andre 77 will try that out

I know its been a while, but the same job has just came into the shop where we would like to use the feeder as a stop. Done as Ken said, putting G160 in the prog and G161 after but nothing happens...

On our quick turn 200-II a job as come in where we must turn a indent in the face which a 1" rad starting at 15.25mm dia finishing on centre X0.0 Z-1.0mm,when we try this, there is always a pip where...

We've had trouble like on occasions and find the brushes in the drive motor worn down, a quick change of these and the problems goes.

I run a Haas St20 and A Mazak 200 lathe in the Haas manual theres a list of thread settings and if I follow these my threads are tight, I to need to fine tune the cutting to get the gauges to fit,...

Thanks Ken will look at that next time on the machine

Has anyone used the 300 feeder has a backstop, in the feeders manual theres a piece and a sample program on how to do this

O?????
G105 Q7 (LOAD PUSH ROD)
GO V-20. (SET POSTION)
M0
(LOAD PART)...

I know i griped on about the machine at first and I know some machines can have teething problems but I can't fault our local Haas engineers now, they've spent hours sorting out our problems and now...

thats a good idea, delrin inserts in the 1 3/4 liner. We got something similar on our Mazak lathes thanks fseeley 13. Why didn't I think of that :) ? Yes I think management would complain if I was...

The collet chuck arrived this week, the fitter arrived Wednesday late afternoon to fit it, luckily I checked if our collets fitted, they didn't, they sent the wrong size.
We got 2 Mazak lathes...

Thanks mike you're lucky we've been told not to cut any bars no longer than 1 meter or 40". 2ft sounds ok but could end up wasting alot of bar with ends of about 2-3 ins ejected every time.

Hi Ken thanx for reply just read it, man from Haas turned up today to fix the pedal and set the turret rite

thank you for the prompt reply, i will try that

Is it aceptable or safe to turn 1 5/8 alu bar using a 1 3/4 liner on a Haas ST20 with a servo 300 bar feed my boss says yes, i'm not sure, and Haas don't supply a liner at that size.

Hi all, this is my first post here. Just took delievery of a ST20 2 weeks old and had problems from the start, ordered machine with collet chuck which wasn't fitted and still not here, foot pedals...

Thank you for the quick reply I will do that. I was pulling my hair out trying to input those codes.

I to have lost the parameters on a t1,I have them in a book and inputed all on page1 , but are having trouble inputing the binary codes on page 2 p1 onwards, the first p1 is 01001101 I type this but...

I to find that you cannot edit mf files so you must make the main fm files are correct before importing them into multi fixture control

I guess it is that, I now found out that if you use partline programming you can't use the multi finish option, where centreline cutting you can.
I still prefer partline cutting though.

Are there any advantages in useing partline progamming over centreline cutting using tool comp. I know the program looks different and why, but why use 1 not the other

I need to make a part and this has a threaded hole 7/8 unef. The customer as supplied the tap but is not sure of the drill, i have searched the net for this size and have conflicting sizes from 0.812...

Thank you for your help, we have contacted Mazak and is waiting for their reply.

just took delivery of a new nexus 200 quick turn all well and good if you knew where all the menus and buttons are. The problem is we got a tube sticking out of chuck 6.5", we need to drill this 1...

Thanx all for the help and suggestions. We had a visit from a Mazak engineer and to be fair the the bloke he seamed to know what he was doing, but i showed him your comments. He showed real interest...

The problem started recently with mis-clamping of the turret, not all the time may I say but now and again, but 1 day it was left to run though its program through lunch break it should of finished I...