Originally Posted by machinetoolguy  I have personally worked on Haas machines for about 15 years now. Wear is usually not an issue with them due to the specs when built at the factory. I have also lasered a few with unbelievable results. The VM3 is a well built machine with all the speed where needed. The 6mm ballscrews leave a very nice finish as well. Bang for the buck, probably one of the best machines out there in it's respective category. I will leave the scale decission on you. They do however work extremely well for positioning. |
I agree with you about the scales...but what I've seen from some studies we've done here with a third party at the HFO...the machines are great anyways. If you're REALLY after a very high true position tolerance, anchor the machine to the floor and shoot it with lasers and spend some time in the comp tables. The third party we work with here has done a few now, one is a customer of ours running their machine 24/7. They went in a year later and checked it, and it performed exactly the same as it did a year ago when they first lasered and comp'd it.