Speedie
Stainless
- Joined
- Feb 24, 2009
- Location
- Midwestern MN/Wi USA
Lots od the 2nd gen lives on, calmotion, ITS...NEXGEN...ect. Solid folks in the industry. Now you can pecker size it up with rapids, Haas this, Haas that but a VF12 50 taper cuts like a vmc15xt. They shake to the same harmonics tune.....brbrbtbrbtbtbrbtbbtbtbrbtbt...reewwwww...ok oops just took a 1/4 bite out of aluminum. I think haas likes 50 taper because the pull stud has 5000lbs of force not because they cut better..ha. We have some newer gen Haas machines at work and they are superior in every way to even older gen haas but they still rattle. Haas feels it is important to rum only 4 bearings in every axis...sheesh. Are they ball style? Fadal required big oil pressure and constant maintenance on the lubrication valves. If those valves werent clean and exactly metering you get what you get....cruddy results. But when a machine was made on a friday after soup it would go against most machines of that yeat and tromp it in its class. They were great and the legacy left is that of running machines im shops, oems and small garages
There is no greater value than a half assed fadal right now for a start up or to get another spindle at least making a chip
There is no greater value than a half assed fadal right now for a start up or to get another spindle at least making a chip