Mark Hockett
Aluminum
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2004
- Location
- Clinton, Washington
I was running a job on my Haas lathe today. The job is 2600 parts and the cycle time is 39 seconds. I don’t have a bar feed so I'm pretty busy. All of the sudden the screen goes white and there’s an alarm message that says,
"Alarm 144 warning, machine will stop functioning in 84 hours, call dealer for unlock code, press cancel to continue"
I called Selway, which I hate to do anyway, and they put me on hold for quite awhile. Finally they get back on the phone and the comment is "we will give you the unlock code for 800 hours of use". That’s nice of them to let me use my lathe for another 800 hours. I had to waste a bunch of time to straighten this thing out and Selway talked like they were doing me a favor.
When I purchased the machine I had the money to purchase it outright but my accountant said to lease it so I would have a write off, I own my house so I don't have any other write offs. If I would have known this I would have bought it outright, although they would probably still put some code in there so I have to make a service call.
Makes me wonder if I would ever buy another Haas product.
Mark Hockett
Island Tech Enterprises
Clinton, WA
360-914-6026
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"Alarm 144 warning, machine will stop functioning in 84 hours, call dealer for unlock code, press cancel to continue"
I called Selway, which I hate to do anyway, and they put me on hold for quite awhile. Finally they get back on the phone and the comment is "we will give you the unlock code for 800 hours of use". That’s nice of them to let me use my lathe for another 800 hours. I had to waste a bunch of time to straighten this thing out and Selway talked like they were doing me a favor.
When I purchased the machine I had the money to purchase it outright but my accountant said to lease it so I would have a write off, I own my house so I don't have any other write offs. If I would have known this I would have bought it outright, although they would probably still put some code in there so I have to make a service call.
Makes me wonder if I would ever buy another Haas product.
Mark Hockett
Island Tech Enterprises
Clinton, WA
360-914-6026
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