Deciding on the right CNC for my home shop

There's nothing that says you can't start with the Tormach PCNC 1100, and move up to a Haas later.

If you are doing tooling, rather than consider a Haas Mini, you might consider a Haas TM1 or TM2 Toolroom mill.

I had a TM1 in my shop, and it had 30 X 12 X 16 XYZ travels and I also had a 10 position tool changer and a 5C 4th axis. Rigid tapping too.

I had a heart attack in the shop in October 2007, and that's why I HAD a Haas TM1. After my heart attack, I decided I no longer needed the stress of ownership.

I have a Tormach PCNC 1100 in my garage now, and I run the hell out of it. I run it between 40 and 70 hours per week in my "HOBBY" business. I make and sell parts for remote control gasoline powered racing boats, cars, trucks and buggies. These "TOYS" use highly modified weed whacker engines and actually go pretty fast. The boats are 60+ MPH and the cars are in the low to mid 50's.
 
Here are some links to lower cost VMC's that have tool changers. This first one can do tapping and both are around $22,000.

http://www.fadeceng.com/
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fadec-UMC10...736?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35c3e650a8

This next one is nice but needs 3 phase power and might not be capable of tapping.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bolton-Tool...322?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7e0318ba

I started a thread at CNCZone about the Fadec machine you might want to take a look.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1240311

In anycase if you can use HAAS for free that is the best choice!
 
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