CNC Lathes

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Originally Posted by Cory

Older Haas lathes are known to be of suspect quality but the new ST and SS series are supposed to be much better.

The tolerances you were trying to hold are well within the range of what the machine can achieve.

That was why it was so incredibly frustrating. We were running a few SL-20s, and they all seemed to have similar problems just a few months after purchase. Some of the jobs needed to be higher tolerance than what the SL-20s were specced to hold, so we ran them on our other machines without issues. It was always a gamble running jobs on the Haas machines if they were close to the machine limit.

But if the newer series are improved, that sounds like a pretty good choice in machine. The Haas control is much more user friendly and intuitive than a standard Fanuc.