Jesse_92683
Plastic
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2018
A quick background:
I have a 1500ft2 hobby shop on my property and it sadly burn down two weeks ago. I used it for hobbies and the occasionally doing side machining jobs for extra fun money. In it I lost a tormach 770 (it was my first machine and although not a vmc as everyone likes to remind every tormach owner but it still made me plenty of money for the beer fund), late 90s Fadal 4020 and Fadal xt15.
So the question is what should I replace those with. These are my limitations:
1. Price of course as I quickly found out I was under insured.
2. I was hoping I could get just 1 machine as space and money are limited (story of every makers life)
3. I don’t know why but it bugs the shit out of me paying someone to unload the machine since I have a forklift but the machine really couldn’t be heavier than 8k (max forklift weight). So if a smaller 8k or less machine exists that would be great
Not nessisary but I was also hoping to get a 5 axis or at least one with a trunion in it as I really wanna learn 5axis machining.
So what do you guys think? Am I being realistic with a budget of 40k for a late 2000s, early 2010s smallish 5axis horizonal vmc?
I have a 1500ft2 hobby shop on my property and it sadly burn down two weeks ago. I used it for hobbies and the occasionally doing side machining jobs for extra fun money. In it I lost a tormach 770 (it was my first machine and although not a vmc as everyone likes to remind every tormach owner but it still made me plenty of money for the beer fund), late 90s Fadal 4020 and Fadal xt15.
So the question is what should I replace those with. These are my limitations:
1. Price of course as I quickly found out I was under insured.
2. I was hoping I could get just 1 machine as space and money are limited (story of every makers life)
3. I don’t know why but it bugs the shit out of me paying someone to unload the machine since I have a forklift but the machine really couldn’t be heavier than 8k (max forklift weight). So if a smaller 8k or less machine exists that would be great
Not nessisary but I was also hoping to get a 5 axis or at least one with a trunion in it as I really wanna learn 5axis machining.
So what do you guys think? Am I being realistic with a budget of 40k for a late 2000s, early 2010s smallish 5axis horizonal vmc?
