T-Drill F-400 User manual

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INSTRUCTION MANUAL
2
Version
6402768EN
10.03.2019 / MT
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Instrucons for use of the T-Drill .
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Is has been our aim to elaborate this instrucon book with the greatest possible care and aenon. The accuracy of the
informaon has been carefully checked during the preparaon of the manual. Should any subsequent modicaons be
made to the product, we decline liability for erroneous or incomplete informaon.
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INDUSTRIES, INC.
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Norcross, Georgia 30093, USA
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F-400
Contents
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1.1 General ........................................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Symbols for warning and danger used in this manual....................................................6
1.3 Symbols and warnings used in the machine...................................................................7
1.4 Personal protecve equipment for the operator............................................................8
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2.1 Flanging machine safety instrucons..............................................................................9
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3.1 Introducon of anging ................................................................................................10
3.2 Methods of anging......................................................................................................11
3.2.1 Cold Flanging.......................................................................................................... 11
3.4 Informaon on the equipment .....................................................................................12
3.5 Formable Materials.......................................................................................................12
3.6 Technical specicaons................................................................................................. 13
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5.1 Installaon and levelling of the machine......................................................................15
5.1.1 Layout..................................................................................................................... 15
5.1.2 Space requirement.................................................................................................16
5.1.3 Leveling ..................................................................................................................17
5.2 Ambient condions.......................................................................................................18
5.3 Connecon of the machine to the sources of energy...................................................18
5.3.1 Connecon to the electric network .......................................................................18
5.4 Start-up inspecon ....................................................................................................... 19
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6.1 Descripon of the control devices ................................................................................20
6.1.1 Main switch............................................................................................................20
6.1.2 Control panel.......................................................................................................... 20
6.1.3 Key-switch and brake release- push buon ..........................................................24
6.1.4 Signal lights (oponal)............................................................................................24
6.1.5 Safety Area Scanner (oponal)...............................................................................24
6.1.6 Control Elements....................................................................................................25
6.1.7 The valve arrangement board ................................................................................28
6.2 Stopping the machine...................................................................................................30
6.2.1 The normal stopping of the F-400 machine ...........................................................30
6.2.2 The emergency stopping of the F-400 machine.....................................................30
6.3 The machine seng...................................................................................................... 30
6.3.1 The idencaon of the forming pin .....................................................................30

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6.3.2 Changing of the forming pin...................................................................................31
6.3.3 Adjustment of the angle of the forming pin...........................................................33
6.3.4 How to correct undesirable ange shape ..............................................................34
6.3.5 Adjustment of the forming pin radius....................................................................35
6.3.6 The fastening of the pipe .......................................................................................37
6.3.7 Seng the length of the part of the pipe to be anged ........................................41
6.4 Instrucons for the use of the display ..........................................................................42
6.4.1 Menu-screen .......................................................................................................... 42
6.4.1.1 User level selecon - screen.............................................................................43
6.4.1.2 Programming- screen.......................................................................................44
6.4.1.3 Pipe seng- screen.......................................................................................... 45
6.4.1.3.1 Library- screen............................................................................................. 45
6.4.1.4 Input/Output- screen .......................................................................................46
6.4.1.5 Alarms - screen.................................................................................................46
6.4.1.6 Main screen...................................................................................................... 47
6.5 Adjustment of forming device ......................................................................................48
6.6 Cold anging and aring of the pipe.............................................................................50
6.7 Working instrucons for bevelling ...............................................................................51
6.7.1 The installaon of the bevelling tool......................................................................51
6.7.2 The adjustment of the forming tool.......................................................................52
6.7.3 The work cycle of the bevelling operaon .............................................................53
6.8 Adjustment and operaon of anging machine based on seng value table .............54
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8.1 Lubricaon....................................................................................................................58
8.2 Regular weekly Inspecon ............................................................................................62
8.2.1 Inspecons of Spindle Chain Tightness ..................................................................62
8.2.2 Fastenings of Moving Carriage Cylinders and Piston Shas ...................................62
8.2.3 Fastening of Flanging Tool ......................................................................................62
8.2.4 Seng of Limit Switch............................................................................................ 62
8.3 PLC-baery maintenance..............................................................................................63
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9.1 Funconing ................................................................................................................... 64
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10.1 Clamping Lengths (Standard clamps)..........................................................................65
10.2 F-400 Capabilies........................................................................................................66
10.2.1 Carbon Steels .......................................................................................................66
10.2.2 Austenic Stainless Steels ....................................................................................66
10.2.3 Copper Alloys (copper, copper nickel, aluminium brass) .....................................67

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10.3 Approximate Operaon Times of Flanging .................................................................68
10.3.1 Fixing of the Pipe into the Clamp ........................................................................68
10.3.2 Flanging (machine me)....................................................................................... 68
10.4 Installaon Times........................................................................................................ 69
10.5 Loose Flange Joint.......................................................................................................70
10.5.1 Lapped Joint .........................................................................................................70
10.5.2 Loose Flange.........................................................................................................70
10.5.3. Gasket ................................................................................................................. 70
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This instrucon book contains the instrucons for use, maintenance and seng of the
T-DRILL machine, as well as recommendaons regarding dierent working procedures
and the use of the forming tools.
Before proceeding with installaon and operaon of the machine, read the safety
instrucons in chapter 2 “General safety instrucons”
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
a


¨




FLANGING MACHINE
7
F-400

Read the instrucon manual aenvely before carrying out
installaon, operaon, seng or maintenance of the machine.
Electric box. Danger may be caused by electric installaon.
Sharp edges!
Be extremely cauous when handling this area of the machine.
Mind the rotang spindle.
Don’t look into the pipe during the process relang to the collar.
Don’t stay on the pipe line or beside the holes.
Warning! Moving parts. Be extremely cauous when handling
this area of the machine.
Do not loosen the upper clamps
ghtening screw when clamps are open.
The clamp might fall down.
Tighten the clamp ghtening screws to
40 Nm or so that the ends of the screws’
threads are level with front panel.
Danger of collision!
When changing the forming pin note to
adjust the correct anging radius. (See
ange standard tables).

INSTRUCTION MANUAL
8

Always wear the appropriate personal protecve equipment, and use extreme cauon
when operang the machine.


Use hearing protector when operang with the machine.
Use protecve glasses when operang with the machine.
Use safety gloves when operang with the machine
Use safety boots when operang with the machine

Read the instrucon book aenvely before carrying out installaon, operaon, seng
or maintenance of the machine. The T-DRILL machine is to be used only for the purposes
and in the way as specied in this manual.
Do not allow visitors or unqualied persons to enter the working area or to come near
the machine.
When operang the machine, all protecon devices should be ed in their right place
and be in proper condion.
Do not keep any loose objects or tools on the machine.
Never exceed the capacity of the machine.
Observe special cauon when using the pipe clamp.
Always disconnect the current supply before opening the electric box of the machine.
Disconnect the current supply before carrying out any maintenance or repair inside the
machine.
When pressing the emergency stop switch, all funcons of machine are immediately
stopped.
Aer installaon of the machine, before operang it, carry out the “Start-up Inspecon”,
described in chapter 5.4.
Always use personal protecon equipment when using the machine.
¨


FLANGING MACHINE
9
F-400

Before switching the anging machine on, the work supervising personnel and the
employees shall carefully acquaint themselves with the manual, the structure of the
machine and it’s funconing. Memorize the locaon of each operang switch and the
funcon the switch regulates.
Use the machine for no other purpose than for those allowed in the manual; be careful
at all mes. Ensure that there are no unauthorized persons in the vicinity of the machine.
Flanging shall take place under the supervision of the management in such a manner as
no excess of the machine funconing values may occur and the machine is generally used
according to the manual and safety regulaons.
¨





INSTRUCTION MANUAL
10


The machine is intended for widening the end of a pipe to form a ange using a rotang
forming cone. The ange thus formed is used as a sealing and joining element in so-
called loose ange joints.
1. Bolt, 2. Loose ange, 3. Flanged pipe, 4. Seal

The spindle and the ange spinning tool aached to it are made to rotate by an electric
motor. The bearing-mounted forming pin in the ange forming device turns directed by
the guide of the slide and while turning forms the ange in the pipe end. All machine
movements are hydraulic, except for the spindle rotaon and the movement of the arm
of the heang burner.
The anging operaon: 1. Spindle, 2. Flange forming tool, 3. Forming pin, 4. Pipe clamp,
5. Pipe
The pipe remains immobile during the enre work cycle and consequently also branched
and bent pipes can be anged. The work method makes it possible to ange a great
number of pipes of dierent diameters, since the forming pin and the pipe are linearly in
contact with each other. The wall thickness of the pipe determines almost completely the
necessary amount of force to be exercised on the material for anging.
Pipes anged by this method can be used in loose ange joints to replace lapped and
partly also cast pipe ends involving welding or soldering. The maximum dimensions of
the ange are the same as those of equivalent welded on lapped pipe ends. Depending