Did anybody hear of, or experience, any products of either WMT CNC? The only Chinese company I know of is Syil, where mainly service is the troublesome thing.
What are we looking for? I was looking at the tiny XK7113D, which will be around 7.000 Euro after importing it.
Most of the tasks would be to make some sort of workholding/fixtures for our prototypes and experiments. This usually fits in a 100x100mm area and this is exactly where fast in-house manufacturing would help us. For the larger parts we can live with the waiting time of outsourcing (sometimes we may need to make small changes, but this would again work on the small workspace). Machining is thus not our core business and it will never be a high volume production thing. let's define our use case as just above hobby, entry level industrial :-)
BTW I'm in Europe. There are not many used machines in this budget range, let alone new machines. A >20 yr old Haas is even more expensive. As a starting company; this is the main reason for us.
What are we looking for? I was looking at the tiny XK7113D, which will be around 7.000 Euro after importing it.
Most of the tasks would be to make some sort of workholding/fixtures for our prototypes and experiments. This usually fits in a 100x100mm area and this is exactly where fast in-house manufacturing would help us. For the larger parts we can live with the waiting time of outsourcing (sometimes we may need to make small changes, but this would again work on the small workspace). Machining is thus not our core business and it will never be a high volume production thing. let's define our use case as just above hobby, entry level industrial :-)
BTW I'm in Europe. There are not many used machines in this budget range, let alone new machines. A >20 yr old Haas is even more expensive. As a starting company; this is the main reason for us.