I just got a Fadal , mine came with the 4th axis control card and servo drive, but no actual rotary. I have been told that it’s about $3000-4000 just to add the drive and controller card and associated wiring, no rotary axis.
A couple good places to know about:
Jennifer and Dan at ITSCnc.com and Kevin at KMAC, both are great places to buy Fadal stuff, very nice people and they have their act together, they have stuff in stock and ship fast. Dan seems to take pride in making you feel stupid, but the fact that these machines are still so well supported is amazing.
There are a couple posts on adding probing, unless you ebay the components, that will cost you about $5k too.... welcome to the world of VMCs, and Fadals are dirt cheap compared to Jap stuff ($3500 vs 20,000 for a spindle)
Edit, pwi(posting while intoxicated) its Keith at KMAC, not Kevin, you’d think I remember that as it’s my name too
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