Jesse_92683
Plastic
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2018
I had a shop fire a month or 2 ago and burnt up the 2 late 90s Fadals and A Tormach I had. It was more of a hobby shop with dreams to make it my full time gig in the future. So I’m now rebuilding my shop and I have all but decided that I want a haas. My main reason is I want to be able to do smallish 5 axis work and haas makes 5 axis so easy with all there free YouTube videos. So I was thinking about getting a vf2 and then later down the line upgrading all the nessisary stuff to get a TRT160 on the machine.
So, now I got to ask, why are used not super old haas VMCs so pricey? I have 50k and I thought that would take me a lot farther than I am seeing on the used market. It seems like it will only get me a early 2010s. At that price it seems like getting a new one with exactly the options I want on it is a better deal. I priced out a vf2ss with what I want on it and it was 72k and that wasn’t even counting their 10-15% discount they seem to always be having....
So am I just not seeing the “good deals” on the used market or am I better off buying new....
I wanted to spend 50k but I do have a hard max budget of about 74k so I could swing new but there goes my budget for new tooling and vises.
So, now I got to ask, why are used not super old haas VMCs so pricey? I have 50k and I thought that would take me a lot farther than I am seeing on the used market. It seems like it will only get me a early 2010s. At that price it seems like getting a new one with exactly the options I want on it is a better deal. I priced out a vf2ss with what I want on it and it was 72k and that wasn’t even counting their 10-15% discount they seem to always be having....
So am I just not seeing the “good deals” on the used market or am I better off buying new....
I wanted to spend 50k but I do have a hard max budget of about 74k so I could swing new but there goes my budget for new tooling and vises.