I thought there was some turcite on the ways? So if the bearings are good the accuracy would be good? The most steel we would do would be 5" square by 2" high material, that being the case would a machine in good shape hold the "Axis Positioning Accuracy" of .0002 that the Fadal spec sheet specifies? Sorry for all the questions but this is a large investment for us. The machine is $15500 which includes the freight and being positioned in our VERY SMALL Shop. We will be edging around this machine. How much clearance do I need around the rear and sides, since you have one. We still need to set up for single phase and PU Tooling (Collets and Vise). We starting considering the Tormach (Not enough Bed) then the Supra (CNC Masters) and both machines set up right would have 12K to 13K in them by the time you added a 4th axis. And they would still be stepper motors and no Tool Changer. I am looking for a way to utilize a probe like this one
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/ind...ic,5004.0.html for tool set up in the Fadal or even something that we can use (probe/digitizer)to reverse engineer parts we had done in the past manualy. Here are some parts we plan to do that we normally sent out to a local cnc shop. I realize the last part is very work intensive, that,s the reason for the 4th. The curved part is sheetmetal inserted and welded in.
Thanks in advance for any help, I'm sure the info will benefit others on this forum
Ralph
