kpotter
Diamond
- Joined
- Apr 30, 2001
- Location
- tucson arizona usa
I have never run a cnc mill but I have reached the point where I pretty much have to do something. I am looking at buying a haas. The shop down the street has a 2017 TM2p they paid 60 grand for it. They are willing to sell it to me for 25 grand cash. My question is this, should I by a vf1 and pay 50 grand for it new or would this machine be fine. I am not a job shop we manufucture our own products. I am planning to have someone program and do set up for us and we will operate it. We cut both steel and aluminum parts. Speed is not a concern, we run all manual machines currently so this will be crazy fast even at a fraction of the speed.