Ox
Diamond
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2002
- Location
- Northwest Ohio
I just have to ask...
I don't follow HAAS all that much - but I stop by their booths usualy at the trade show hoping to find "just the ticket" as I am always looking to find a Yankee Doodle machine to make widgets...
To date I have not bought anything other than a cpl rotaries...
Now I understand them starting with the VMC. It is of course the most generic (widely used?) machine known to man. Then the two axis lathes and the HMC's.
They have taken the HMC line-up to great lengths from the looks of it! I saw the one feller posted a few months back aboot his new HMC HAAS. I remember one comment in that thread stating that the bigger HMC's are built more rugged than the commonplace HAAS machine. (Ultimately to give long life confidence of product.)
But then they go off on these tiny things that second as night stands in the bedroom or a flat spot in the office. ??? Then the big TL series large flatbed CNC lathes. Not to mention the router and bridge mill lines....
My Q is that with all these - why on Earth doo they not offer a real honest to goodness subspindle machine? I know that they have a pr of them available - but come on - a 3" bar machine with a 5C (proximately anyhow?) sub-spindle?
I just have to think that there is a LOT bigger market for a real production lathe than some of these other markets that they seem to chase after?
Any insight from Die-Hard HAAS owners / opperators?
Think Snow Eh!
Ox
I don't follow HAAS all that much - but I stop by their booths usualy at the trade show
To date I have not bought anything other than a cpl rotaries...
Now I understand them starting with the VMC. It is of course the most generic (widely used?) machine known to man. Then the two axis lathes and the HMC's.
They have taken the HMC line-up to great lengths from the looks of it! I saw the one feller posted a few months back aboot his new HMC HAAS. I remember one comment in that thread stating that the bigger HMC's are built more rugged than the commonplace HAAS machine. (Ultimately to give long life confidence of product.)
But then they go off on these tiny things that second as night stands in the bedroom or a flat spot in the office. ??? Then the big TL series large flatbed CNC lathes. Not to mention the router and bridge mill lines....
My Q is that with all these - why on Earth doo they not offer a real honest to goodness subspindle machine? I know that they have a pr of them available - but come on - a 3" bar machine with a 5C (proximately anyhow?) sub-spindle?
I just have to think that there is a LOT bigger market for a real production lathe than some of these other markets that they seem to chase after?
Any insight from Die-Hard HAAS owners / opperators?
Think Snow Eh!
Ox