I was replying to jhruska, who said his brother bought a Haas HMC for around 250k.
Viper, did you get into a HMC? What did you get?
I have yet to come across a machine tool dealer that actually knew jack about machine tool condition, that is what good service techs are for.
This is my brother's company,
Precision Turbo & Engine - Turbocharger, Intercooler, Fuel Injector, Performance Parts & more!
In December of '98 he called and said his lathe machinist left and would I help him out for a while. So I dropped what I was doing and worked at his shop. All lathe work was done on a small LeBlond lathe, maybe 13" or so. There was so much to do it was nuts. I said, buy a turning center!
Harry knew nothing about CNC. He used to run G & L's and a Scharrman bar.
I said buy it and I will do the rest if he would hire a guy to train.
The first Haas was a SL-20, I think that is the right number. It showed up in May of '99.
Right now the shop has two of the slant 20's, two Hass VMC's, a twin spindle Mazak that can finish a part on one side and the pass it to the second spindle for the second operation.
The new Haas horizontal still had the plastic on it when I saw it. It is a pallette type machine.
The guy I trained, he runs the machine shop now.
As for what was paid for the horizontal mill, it was a lot, I think around 250k.
But it was purchased to use the end of the year tax break incentive Obama write-off or something like that. I did not take notes and I've only got my memory to blame for inaccuracy.
Regards,
John