Originally Posted by ltmquik  A good business relation purchased a TRM and it never ran right from the box. The axis faulted all the time. The z-axis would POWER down until it hit the limits or a fixture. This would occur at any given time, spindle running or not. They never could get the machine fixed right. The local rep apparently did not want to do too much because their margins were too tight on the TRM's. Last I heard the company was trying to dump the machine.
I think for the money a HAAS mini mill or office mill is the route. You can get enclosures and tool changers for those. At least the HAAS is Made in the USA. Someone told me that this MAG corp. is importing most of the Fadal machine parts from Asia and putting Fadal stickers on them. Just look at the "NEW" FX machine. I think the only things acutally Fadal are the casting and the sheet metal, which is '90s vintage. |
do you know of others or just that one?
Mark