When the old BOSS machines were designed (1970s), this was state of the art technology. It was aslo the most cost effective way to build a machine that a shop could afford. If you understand the machines, you will know their limitations but will also understand that you can have a cheap machine with a small footprint that will make you good parts. Also, there are spares out there to be found on the used market and a lot of parts are still available from Hardinge. The hardest part of this may be to find a Jurrasic service engineer like myself that knows these machines. I believe stepper motor technology is still used on Floppy drives, hard drives, etc. I never said it was trash.
George |