Uhh should be doesn't count. A premium 1100mx without any options is 34k. As much as I hate saying this, a haas mini mill starts at 36. it'll run on single phase, and fit about anywhere an 1100 will fit. So that's a much better alternative. as for the smaller ones without a toolchanger, it's shit grizzly wrongfu, ect mini mill with steppers, why would you pay a fortune for that.
34k with no options... did they jack the price up 50% in the last few weeks? *checks*
Barf, So not "no options* but yeah it went up 5k. 37k now with 4th axis. This include a probe and a few other things the 39k haas tm0p doesn't, but, yeah.... skip! You used to get a robodrill mate for that. For reference, when the original 1100 launched a million years ago, it was $9999 and the TM1 was $22000.
On the cheaper machines - they aren't any more cheap crap as the mx versions, just smaller. (meaning they are all low grade dovetail castings).
The OP is looking at the cheap model, which I haven't look at in a while.. *checks*
$17000 with atc, no 4th. What the actual....
I mean, I honestly thought they were bad value before, at pre tariff prices.
The haas mini gets up to 45k with a reasonable spec (going vs mx here) so, it now winds up not that far off, but the tm0p is the best value if you can make room.
For actual small machines, it gets really tricky. The depressing truth is a 15mm ground screw and a 25mm ground screw cost ore or less the same. All your important bits that make up the bulk of the machine price cost the same. Siemens servos are more or less all the same price from 200w to 2kw for example.
That's said, for the 17k, I could, even with a generous profit build something 100x better than that tormach 440. (that's a statement, not an offer, ha)