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Re: CNC Router/Mill

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
One of the dozen Haas CNC machines on my campus is a Haas TM-1, and it's definitely a good machine for doing all different kinds of work.
I saw one of these running at IMTS in 2006, where they recut the same part over and over (mill air) for demonstration purposes... well, unless they changed something, the TM-1 I saw had run the same part over probably about 60 times by the time I got there and it was STILL cutting dust off the part. It just seems like the repeatability must not be very good if after that many re-runs it was still cutting dust off the part.

BUT! If it works for you, awesome.

Just to throw another name out there... my faaavorite mill I use at work is a Hurco w/rigid tapping (awesome): http://www.hurco.com/Hurco/English/P...ers/VM+Series/

They're very space efficient and have great feature lists for the money, though they're more production oriented than a TM series from Haas.

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