Quote:
Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
Thanks for the feedback so far guys. While I was researching, I was already highly biased towards the Tormach machines, so your accounts are no surprise at all.
Cory - are there Haas machines available in the 20-25K range? Any other comparable machines within this range?
I'll get back to you about if it would be team money or school money, but at the moment I'm sure it is school money paying for the machine and we are limited to around 12-13K
Along with the 1100, I was thinking the 4th axis would be the best addition. Anything else you guys would suggest? Possibly a power drawbar as well.
|
We've found the 4th axis we have to be a waste of money. Anything that we'd use it for we farm out to sponsors. We could have upgraded to a machine with 10" more travel, for the cost of the 4th, which would have made life about 10x easier. YMMV.
I'd rather have the TM-1 with no toolchanger for 26k than a Tormach with toolchanger.
There's a lot out there on the used market, but Haas is the only commodity machine I know of that you can get new for that price.