Many of the Shizouka Bandits used stepper motors, although I have run a few that
had servo's. The Kasuga (another Japanese Iron) Bandits I have run all seemed to
have servo's and a very nice spindle controller on some. The Shizouka's seemed to always take the heaviest cut.
I don't think the Bandits make a good choice as far as 3D (2 1/2D) milling, but for
general purpose machine shop work in short run quantities they still have a little
bit of use, as long as you can keep then running. |