Anybody out there have, or know of, anywhere in the world to access manuals for an Okuma-Howa HL20 lathe. It's a 2000 with Fanuc 18T controller. Willing to beg, borrow, rent, or buy.

What are you needing out of the manuals? Sample codes, alarm list or programming format, I've got a 1999 ACT-20 with an 18T.

Hey rickyt, thanks for the reply!!!! Biggest problem at present is 'home zero' that wanders around(both axis, and turret position). This all started with a couple months of machine sitting idle,and the back-up batteries went dead; upon restart I had operator message EX 208 on screen, and alarm lite and beeper, and machine was alarmed out. Further digging showed ACP300 alarms for X,Z, and A(turret) axis. Replaced batteries and got rid of 300 alarms thru reset of 1815 parameters, and after MUCH fooling around, finally got rid of 208. However, turret doesn't seem to index like it used to, and in trial running (no work in chuck) an old practice program, the tool called for is not the one to index up(guess I may need to know how to do that,too). Anyway, when moving around axis's in manual mode, things seem fine, and 'home' mode goes back and lites come on; but when we run the practice program, the 'home' zero moves around on us(sometimes quite drastically). Repeated resetting of 'home' zero thru prameter 1815 has not got it to 'stay put'. Of course the Fanuc manuals take you just so far, and then refer you to your 'machine tool builder', NEAT!!! Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, Thanks howd.