I've got a VF2SSYT in my shop and I'm looking to add a lathe. Was planning to get a Doosan Lynx 2100LB. A chip conveyor will take up a decent portion of floor space in the shop (I'm about 2100sf).
For reference, I've had my VF2 in there for about 8 months now and have run about ten 35 gallon cans of chips thru it. I don't do high production. Mostly one off and low run stuff.
The salesman said that using a t-rake to remove chips isn't hard. I also plan on cutting a bunch of acrylic, so he said a lot of people don't use chip conveyors for plastic. I keep my shop very clean and my machines equally as clean, so if raking the chips out makes a huge mess, then I don't want to do that. Also if raking the chips out never really "cleans" out the machine then I probably don't want to do that either.
Anyone have any real life experience raking out one of these lynx machines?
The chip conveyor is nearly 10% of the machine cost, so I suppose a secondary question might be: are there cheaper chip conveyors out there?
Thanks!
For reference, I've had my VF2 in there for about 8 months now and have run about ten 35 gallon cans of chips thru it. I don't do high production. Mostly one off and low run stuff.
The salesman said that using a t-rake to remove chips isn't hard. I also plan on cutting a bunch of acrylic, so he said a lot of people don't use chip conveyors for plastic. I keep my shop very clean and my machines equally as clean, so if raking the chips out makes a huge mess, then I don't want to do that. Also if raking the chips out never really "cleans" out the machine then I probably don't want to do that either.
Anyone have any real life experience raking out one of these lynx machines?
The chip conveyor is nearly 10% of the machine cost, so I suppose a secondary question might be: are there cheaper chip conveyors out there?
Thanks!





