Toshiba BP-150.R22
Manufacturer specifications, what it is built to do, the years we have seen them listed, what tooling fits, and what to check on one. MTE also buys them outright.
What the Toshiba BP-150.R22 is
The Toshiba BP-150.R22 is a CNC horizontal boring mill — a machine for boring, milling and drilling large, heavy workpieces — a quill or spindle feeding out on the W axis over a rotary table that carries tons. The manufacturer publishes a spindle diameter of 5.9 in (150 mm). This one is specified with a W axis: the quill or spindle feeds out independently of the column.
What it is built to do
From the figures the manufacturer publishes, a Toshiba BP-150.R22 suits:
- boring 28 in (711.2 mm) deep on the quill without moving the column
- workpieces up to the published 44,000 lb (20,000 kg), which on a machine this size is usually the binding constraint rather than the travels
- bars and heads sized to a 5.9 in (150 mm) spindle
A note on the name. Toshiba Machine Co. renamed itself Shibaura Machine Co. on 1 April 2020, so the manufacturer’s own specification for this machine is published under Shibaura Machine even though the machine, the nameplate and the way everyone in the trade refers to it all still say Toshiba.
Selling a used Toshiba BP-150.R22
Shibaura publishes two BP-150 machines with the same 150 mm (5.9 in) spindle, and the table is what tells them apart. This R22 carries a 1,800 x 2,200 mm (71 x 87 in) table rated 44,000 lbs (20,000 kg), with 160 in of X and 120 in of Y. On the BP-150.R35 page the table measures 2,000 x 3,500 mm and is rated 25,000 kg, with 6,096 mm of X and 3,556 mm of Y. Put a tape on the table before you describe the machine.
Shibaura America's leaflet calls the BP-150.R22 a planer-type horizontal boring and milling machine with rotary table. Its figure for the spindle motor is AC 37/30 kW (AC 50/40 HP), 30 minute and continuous, and it gives the machine size as 5,677 mm high, 10,210 mm wide and 7,620 mm deep. The picture on that leaflet is a BP-150.R35, so take your own photos rather than borrowing it.
Two spindle heads appear on the maker's page for this model. One is the 200 mm (7.8 in) long nose spindle, a hardened milling spindle extended that far, with coolant through it. The other, an option, is a high-speed head with a smaller 110 mm (4.3 in) spindle on AC 35/30 HP, turning from 40 rpm up to 8,000. If the high-speed head is on the machine or sits beside it, say so, since a buyer sizes bars and holders to the spindle actually fitted.
Shibaura's Japanese page covers the BP-130.R22 and the BP-150.R22 together, so the plate and a measured spindle settle which one this is. That page lists the double pinion B-axis drive with a rotary scale as standard, a manual pendant box for hand work, a long stroke meant for long workpieces, and the TOSNUC999 control. Photograph the nameplate and the start screen on the CNC, and keep both pictures with the listing.
Shibaura names the BP series among its machines with a quill or bar axis, W, working alongside the column or ram on Z, with Z/W tracking of the tool point position. The maker also mentions spindle attachments, a U axis among them, that use the bar's extension to move the tool point. If a U axis head or another bar-driven attachment came with this machine, list it with its make and stroke.
The TOSNUC 999 on Shibaura's BTD, BTH and BP boring mills has a teach function: in manual mode the moves are turned into NC data and stored in the NC memory, and MDI work is stored the same way. A shop that taught its jobs like this keeps its part programs inside the control. Back them up to a card before the power is cut, and keep a printed list of the program names.
Shibaura America's leaflet fills in the rest of this R22's travel and spindle: 1,524 mm (60 in) of Z for the table's longitudinal move, and a 150 mm spindle turning 5 to 2,500 min-1. Its positioning figure on the three linear axes is ±0.008 mm (±0.0003 in), and for repeatability ±0.004 mm. Those are new machine figures, so ask for the most recent alignment or laser check and attach it.
This model's page lists a rotary milling function that machines a cylinder's outside and its ends in one continuous B indexing move, so no add-on NC rotary table is needed, with those surfaces programmed manually through cylindrical interpolation. A portable handwheel covering the three linear axes, the bar and the table is listed beside it. Turn the table slowly on the handwheel for a buyer, then run a short B arc from a program.
Sources: Shibaura Machine, read November 1, 2026; Shibaura Machine Company, America, read November 1, 2026; Shibaura Machine, read November 1, 2026; Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd., archived copy from 2020, read November 1, 2026; Shibaura Machine Company, America, read November 1, 2026; Shibaura Machine Company, America, read November 1, 2026.
Toshiba BP-150.R22 specifications
These are the manufacturer’s figures for this model as currently published. A machine built years ago may differ in control generation and in options, which is exactly why the questions below matter when you sell one.
Further specifications the manufacturer publishes
Source: manufacturer specification page.
What fits a Toshiba BP-150.R22
Each of these follows from a published specification above, which is named beside it.
Boring bars and tooling
The spindle figure opposite sets the boring-bar class this machine works with, and it is the number a buyer of a boring mill asks for first. Bars, facing heads and angle heads are separate assets and are counted separately.
Derived from — Spindle diameter: 5.9 in (150 mm)
Toshiba BP-150.R22 equipment and options
Optional on a new Toshiba BP-150.R22
- Tool probe
- Part probe
- Linear scales
Source: Shibaura Machine, October 26, 2026.
What years the Toshiba BP-150.R22 was built
Across the units we have tracked, build years run from 1996 to 2015. Observed across 25 marketplaces, not a manufacturer build record. The manufacturer specifies TOSNUC 999, so a unit on an older control is an early one or a retrofit.
Toshiba BP-150.R22 machines on the market now
We track listings across 25 used-machinery marketplaces, and every competitor in this market is one of them, so this is a view none of them can produce for themselves. Right now there are 9 units of this exact designation on the market, drawn from 4 independent sources, spanning model years 1996 to 2015. A seller is competing with those units, which is why condition, tooling and control generation decide the number.
We count only listings whose model is spelled as this machine’s own designation. Near spellings that may be a different variant are excluded rather than counted, so this is a floor on what is out there, not a total.
What affects the value of a used Toshiba BP-150.R22
- Control. The manufacturer specifies TOSNUC 999.
- Build year. The units we tracked were built from 1996 to 2015, across 6 model years.
- Against the published figures. The manufacturer gives max spindle speed 2,500 rpm, tool capacity 60 tools, X-axis travel 160 in (4,064 mm) and Y-axis travel 120 in (3,048 mm).
What to check on a Toshiba BP-150.R22
The same list whichever side of the deal you are on.
- Locate pin at each 90 degrees. The leaflet's accessory list gives table indexing to 0.0001 degree with a locate pin at every 90 degrees. Index to 0, 90, 180 and 270 and confirm the pin seats at each stop.
- Sixty pot changer. Shibaura's spec page gives the ATC tool pod on this model as 60. Cycle the changer through every pot, then photograph the magazine loaded with the holders that stay.
- Bar out to 711 mm. W stroke on the R22 is 28 in (711.2 mm). Feed the bar to the end of that stroke and back at a slow rate, and note anything that changes as it nears full extension.
- Rapid over the long Y. Rapid for the bar is 5,000 mm/min and for the rotary table 500 deg/min, while X, Y and Z each reach 10,000 mm/min; cutting feed has a 6,000 mm/min ceiling. Take X, Y and Z through their whole travel at rapid; Y alone is 3,048 mm (120 in) here.
- CAT 50 and the spindle clamp. This leaflet names CAT 50 as the taper and includes an auto spindle clamp unit. Read the taper on a holder, and clamp the spindle at a few places along its stroke and watch for creep.
- Scales on four axes. This model's page offers optional scale feedback for the X, Y and Z linear axes and the B rotary axis. The leaflet's accessory list, by contrast, names HEIDENHAIN feedback scales for all three linear axes and B. Find the scale housing on each slide and the rotary scale at the table, and record what is there.
- Cooling unit and covers. The leaflet's machine list includes a spindle cooling unit, an auto power shut down, and safety covers on the operator side and the ATC side. Start the cooling unit, and see that both covers are on the machine.
- Renishaw probes. Two Renishaw options appear on this model's page: a radio probe for touch measuring, run by Shibaura's software and checked on a calibration block, and an RTS unit for tool length that writes the offset. If either one is fitted, power it up and confirm the receiver sees it.
- Leaflet accessory list. The leaflet's accessories add a high power spindle drive motor, an item marked CTS, a table reference piece and a manual operation box with a current position monitor. Tick each one off against the machine and list those present.
Sources: Shibaura Machine Company, America, read November 1, 2026; Shibaura Machine, read November 1, 2026.
Toshiba BP-150.R22 control
- Control TOSNUC 999
Machines buyers cross-shop with the Toshiba BP-150.R22
Other CNC horizontal boring mills in this directory, closest first on spindle diameter.
Toshiba BTD-130H.R22
- Spindle diameter
- 5.1 in (130 mm)
- X-axis travel
- 118 in (3,000 mm)
- W-axis travel
- 27.5 in (700 mm)
- Max table load
- 26,400 lb (12,000 kg)
Toshiba BTH-130
- Spindle diameter
- 5.1 in (130 mm)
Toshiba BF 130B
- Spindle diameter
- 5.1 in (130 mm) spindle / 14.2 in (360 mm) quill
- W-axis travel
- 39.4 in (1,000 mm)
The rest of the CNC horizontal boring mills in this directory: Toshiba BTD 200QH · Toshiba BTD-110H.R16 · Toshiba BTH-110R 18
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