I still own 3 haas machines and feel I am not out of line to bring up that some of the other brands have a lot to offer.
DD, you're not out of line bringing up valid issues or viable alternatives.
I own 3 Haas VMC-s and 2 Haas lathes.
In addition I also own 2 Mori lathes as well.
Unless Haas doesn't produce something different than what they have now, I'll probably won't have another Haas lathe in this shop, but my reasons are specific to me.
For the very same reasons, I will also not have an Okuma or Doosan, nor most other brands either.
But!
I am not going about and bash Brand Haas, Brand Okuma or Brand (
insert target of your dislike here) every chance I get.
Did you get a piece of garbage control? Yupp, you did.
Did Haas make good on their offer? Well sort of, as they took back the piece of garbage they've sold you, even tho you have lost out in the process.
Now that you have no stick in the fire and no longer aware of what may or may not happening with the new control?
Please, feel free to advocate whatever you believe is a better value, but stop bitching about something that's no longer valid for the most part and
let us with a horse in the game keep it going if we feel the need to.
I should have the new release installed in a month or so, and if there are issue I will let the HFO know.
If no resolution, I'll get on Haas-corporate directly.
If still no resolution, then I'll spread my wisdom here for all to see, but only once so people can do their own diligence in researching or Haas to maybe get off their asses.
My new VF4 is now 5 months old, and has paid itself for the next 14 months + profit.
Could a Doosan do that? Probably, if not most likely.
But, in my case all I had to do is to send the existing program(s) to a different machine, knowing that the result will be the same.
Which happens to be the exact reason why I bought it in the first place as I have no time to dick with shit just for the sake of change.