LadyBlueSteel
Plastic
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2020
- Location
- Elizabeth, Colorado
Good morning,
I am not super active on this forum and usually just read posts from time to time. However, I am making this post to see if I can get some help locating a Z-Axis home switch on our 1991 Mazak SQT-15M CNC lathe. We are trying to avoid having to pull a bunch of paneling and going on a wild goose chase for some random part that we aren't sure how to identify. Mazak has been helpful to some extent, but also aren't sure how to advise where we begin to look. The two gentlemen that we spoke to have limited knowledge of this machine. We are seeking all options in an attempt to avoid an approximate $2k service call for this. (We will if we have to, only as a last resort.)
We purchased this machine in May 2020. My husband is the machinist of our company and works on manual lathes and mills for all operations, but when it comes to CNC programming, we are a little out of our depth. We purchased this CNC, obviously used, from a 3rd party company. The machine was located out of state and we hired a trucking company to deliver. We were shown a video of the machine in operation prior to purchase, but have not gotten it programmed ourselves just yet. It is under power, but as I mentioned, we are new to CNC. However, we hired a CNC consultant to come teach us about the machine and how to program it. He kept running into a problem with the machine, was unfamiliar with this particular model and was unable to diagnose or locate the Z-Axis home switch with confidence.
When trying to home the Z-axis of the machine, the switch is not reading when it is pressed. The Z-axis keeps traveling until it runs out of travel and triggers an “overload” alarm. When attempting to home the X and Z-axis by activating the Home mode and traveling with jog controls the X-axis finds home and stops automatically there. The Z does not. He attempted to push what he believed was the switch in by hand while in the homing mode and it still didn't register, when he tried, he was not jogging the axis at all. Said that would be too dangerous.
We have been in touch with Mazak, but they have asked us to pull the part number off of the switch, recommending that we just order a part to replace it.
Does anyone have any insight into this machine and where we might find this Z-Axis home switch?
Any other insight would be welcome, as well!
Thank you in advance.
I am not super active on this forum and usually just read posts from time to time. However, I am making this post to see if I can get some help locating a Z-Axis home switch on our 1991 Mazak SQT-15M CNC lathe. We are trying to avoid having to pull a bunch of paneling and going on a wild goose chase for some random part that we aren't sure how to identify. Mazak has been helpful to some extent, but also aren't sure how to advise where we begin to look. The two gentlemen that we spoke to have limited knowledge of this machine. We are seeking all options in an attempt to avoid an approximate $2k service call for this. (We will if we have to, only as a last resort.)
We purchased this machine in May 2020. My husband is the machinist of our company and works on manual lathes and mills for all operations, but when it comes to CNC programming, we are a little out of our depth. We purchased this CNC, obviously used, from a 3rd party company. The machine was located out of state and we hired a trucking company to deliver. We were shown a video of the machine in operation prior to purchase, but have not gotten it programmed ourselves just yet. It is under power, but as I mentioned, we are new to CNC. However, we hired a CNC consultant to come teach us about the machine and how to program it. He kept running into a problem with the machine, was unfamiliar with this particular model and was unable to diagnose or locate the Z-Axis home switch with confidence.
When trying to home the Z-axis of the machine, the switch is not reading when it is pressed. The Z-axis keeps traveling until it runs out of travel and triggers an “overload” alarm. When attempting to home the X and Z-axis by activating the Home mode and traveling with jog controls the X-axis finds home and stops automatically there. The Z does not. He attempted to push what he believed was the switch in by hand while in the homing mode and it still didn't register, when he tried, he was not jogging the axis at all. Said that would be too dangerous.
We have been in touch with Mazak, but they have asked us to pull the part number off of the switch, recommending that we just order a part to replace it.
Does anyone have any insight into this machine and where we might find this Z-Axis home switch?
Any other insight would be welcome, as well!
Thank you in advance.