There's a post I put on PM a while back when purchasing accidentally ordered to Hurco VM-20U's rather than our usual Haas VF-2SS's. We decided to put them on the floor and try to make use of them and they just have no balls. The machines were like working in a cave with horrible lighting. The side doors have no windows and have to be unscrewed to clean the machines out. The coolant tanks leaked worse than any of the old Haas coolant systems.
If you were going to just use it for 3 axis conversational programming it would get the job done but 5X? I would hate to try to look inside the dungeon to see what was going on with a trunnion on it...
Here's a vid I made showing how weak the Hurco spindle is compared to the VF2-SS. We realized after about 2 months that the Hurco was costing us money even trying to prep stock so we gave them to the mold shop and after a week they mothballed em and shoved em in the warehouse.
Haas VS Hurco... VF2-SS takes on VM-20 - YouTube