Yes, but it's made in America!
Our VM 24 (1999) has been rock solid except for some intermittent and unexplained electrical glitches. It has that same spindle drive but the cabinet for the VM24 is much bigger with plenty of clearance around it. It is sitting vertically. We had a service tech check ours about 2 years ago when a problem started appearing almost daily. It was his first Milltronics to service and had the same reaction, kept shaking his head. He found some bad connections some place that I don't recall now (up by motor I think), and the problem went away for awhile. It only took him a few minutes to find the problem. Now it only shows up about once every couple of months at most. Our problem was a spindle "oversomething" fault and the machine would have to be shut down for a few minute to clear the error. It was real annoying to say the least. The problem never showed in the middle of a program fortunately, only when the spindle was restarted after a tool change or first thing in the morning. Sorry that's not much help  |