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H.H. Roberts Machinery Limited
1324 Matheson Blvd E., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. L4W-2Z7, Fax 905-624-9065
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HH Roberts / Topwell 5A-VF

A knee mill on steroids

59" x 13" or  59" x 18" table

40" x 18.9" x 20"  travels

7 1/2 to 15 Hp
. Vector drive head with your choice of back geared or direct drive.  Direct drive speed range 75 to 4,000 or 100 to 6,000 rpm. via belt change. Back geared ranges 15 to 750 and 75 to 6,000.  Click here for details

Power feeds on X and Y with CNC style servo drives giving independent feed rate and direction on each axis.


The Acu-Rite LCD graphical digital readout is standard. It can store 8 programs in memory, each having up to 250 steps. Programs can be uploaded or downloaded to a PC.
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Rapid vertical traverse on knee

Telescopic steel covers in front of saddle
coolant system with chip pan ballscrews on X and Y

HUGE 30" reach, spindle centre line to face of column with the ram fully extended

Worklight

Weight approximately 6,050 lb.
Topwell 5A-VF milling machine
Now available with optional 11.5 and 15 Hp spindle drives.

Field upgrades are available for customers with earlier machines.
Click here to download our knee mill catalogue.

To the left is the control pendant for the VF series. This one shows the optional 3 axis Heidenhain display.

To the left is the control pendant for the VF series. The current models come with the Acu-Rite LCD graphical digital readout as standard equipment.

Controls on the Panel:
At the top left is the spindle speed display. Under the display is the speed setting knob and the forward - stop - reverse switch.

In the middle and are under the white safety bar making them a bit hard to see are the joysticks for axis selection  

Just below the joysticks are the geared knobs for sensitive feed rate setting. Feed rates are displayed on the digital readout.  On the knee mills X and Y have the feed knobs and the vertical knee lift just had the joystick for rapid positioning. On the bed mill versios all 3 axes have feed knobs.
Below the feed knobs are the yellow buttons for the rapid traverse for each axis. 

The lower switches are for the worklight and coolant on the left and an
E-stop on the right.
The electronics cabinet is oversized to allow for future upgrading to a CNC.  The X and Y axis already have CNC class amplifiers and axis motors, as well as the spindle drive.  You can see in the top left corner of the panel a blank space where the CNC control can be fitted.  Minimal wiring changes and pre-fitted components make the CNC upgrade very economical.
Showing the CNC ready  electronics cabinet on the 5A-VF
The picture below gives you a side by side comparisoin of the
Topwell 5A and the stardard 5 machine frames
comparison of Topwell 5 and 5A machine frames