ASD Motorsports
Plastic
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- Aug 4, 2019
Hi All,
Been lurking on and off here for years, never joined until now.
I purchased a brand new TM1-P for prototype work, to shorten our R&D lead times and for our motorsport program very short runs and quick turn around times. It made sense to bring that in house so we could develop quickly.
There were also confidentiality advantages on some projects.
The machine has never run a production job of more than 10 parts at a time, and it has only ever machined 6061 aluminum.
We used the machine very sporadically over about four years for this purpose, then stopped using it. It would sit for months at a time until we needed it to develop something new for the race cars. It probably only has 300 hours on it, best guess, and is like brand new.
In the end we developed a trusted and mutually beneficial relationship with a local job shop, so stopped using it completely. I then took it to my house hobby shop for personal projects, but never wired it into the panel. So its been sitting in the corner for about three years.
It's not the first Haas I've owned, so it wasn't used as a learner machine. Never crashed, has some 40T tooling (about 10 tool holders). Has the chip auger, large coolant tank etc. No probe as we weren't doing production and set-up time didn't bother us.
It's like brand new and hasn't got a scratch on it. The machine bed has never seen anything on it as I had a blanchard ground set up plate bolted to the bed before we ever started using it, and a brand new Kurt vice bolted to one end of that.
As its not wired in, I can't fire it up to confirm accurate hours - and won't bother unless someone is interested in buying it and unless I have to.
I'm open to offers... it can keep sitting there doing nothing but that's kind of dumb and the space back would be good. Don't need the money, but also happy to give someone a good fair deal and I don't think it's gold plated.
Paid about $40k for it at the end of 2009, plus the tooling, blanchard ground plate on the bed, Kurt vice etc.
I spend my life now running three businesses, and don't ever see me machining my own stuff ever again - not even for my personal stuff.
If you have an offer, or want to know more shoot me an email at [email protected].
Machine is located in Charlotte North Carolina. My home hobby shop has full size truck access inside with 14 foot roll up doors for rigging access.
If anyone is keen I'll take the time to get some photos.
If you Google or search social media for ASD Motorsports / Ian Stewart / Hoonicorn Mustang it should give you enough verification that I can be a trusted seller.
Have a great day guys!
- Ian.
Been lurking on and off here for years, never joined until now.
I purchased a brand new TM1-P for prototype work, to shorten our R&D lead times and for our motorsport program very short runs and quick turn around times. It made sense to bring that in house so we could develop quickly.
There were also confidentiality advantages on some projects.
The machine has never run a production job of more than 10 parts at a time, and it has only ever machined 6061 aluminum.
We used the machine very sporadically over about four years for this purpose, then stopped using it. It would sit for months at a time until we needed it to develop something new for the race cars. It probably only has 300 hours on it, best guess, and is like brand new.
In the end we developed a trusted and mutually beneficial relationship with a local job shop, so stopped using it completely. I then took it to my house hobby shop for personal projects, but never wired it into the panel. So its been sitting in the corner for about three years.
It's not the first Haas I've owned, so it wasn't used as a learner machine. Never crashed, has some 40T tooling (about 10 tool holders). Has the chip auger, large coolant tank etc. No probe as we weren't doing production and set-up time didn't bother us.
It's like brand new and hasn't got a scratch on it. The machine bed has never seen anything on it as I had a blanchard ground set up plate bolted to the bed before we ever started using it, and a brand new Kurt vice bolted to one end of that.
As its not wired in, I can't fire it up to confirm accurate hours - and won't bother unless someone is interested in buying it and unless I have to.
I'm open to offers... it can keep sitting there doing nothing but that's kind of dumb and the space back would be good. Don't need the money, but also happy to give someone a good fair deal and I don't think it's gold plated.
Paid about $40k for it at the end of 2009, plus the tooling, blanchard ground plate on the bed, Kurt vice etc.
I spend my life now running three businesses, and don't ever see me machining my own stuff ever again - not even for my personal stuff.
If you have an offer, or want to know more shoot me an email at [email protected].
Machine is located in Charlotte North Carolina. My home hobby shop has full size truck access inside with 14 foot roll up doors for rigging access.
If anyone is keen I'll take the time to get some photos.
If you Google or search social media for ASD Motorsports / Ian Stewart / Hoonicorn Mustang it should give you enough verification that I can be a trusted seller.
Have a great day guys!
- Ian.