[scottandme]

We just got a Tormach 1100 this summer - I haven't had a ton of time to run parts on it, but it's pretty capable for the work we're throwing at it. Holds around 0.001-0.0005 in circular interpolation with not much effort - so press-fit bearings are easy. That's about as precise as we need it to be. It's certainly not near the class of a Haas, but it's not in that price range either. For milling mainly aluminum and plastics (polycarb/delrin/hdpe/uhmw), it's well suited. It's not going to be driving a 4" face mill, but at reasonable speeds/MRR's, I've been happy with it.

Anything bigger than the machine travels we can farm out to sponsor CNC/waterjet, but it will let us do the majority of our smaller work in house, and it lets our PLTW classes have a better machine to work with.

You're welcome to come by and check the machine out anytime, just shoot me a PM.