Originally Posted by star-turn  really ? then i happily stand corrected.
but i'm sure that the sl10 i worked on was made up of several parts. |
Well, yes, most machines are made up of several parts; a base, a head stock, Z axis carriage, X axis cross-slide and a few other bits and pieces bolted on here and there
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But to be serious, the SL10 bed is a casting, one piece from end to end top to bottom.
Haas does make one range of machines that are fabricated, the Gantry machines; rather immense fabrications too.
The MiniMill/Super MiniMill machines confuse some people. The base of the machine is a fabrication which also forms the coolant tank but there is a casting bolted on top of the base and the column is a casting.