Hi All
Have the opportunity to get the Shop Task Gunmaster 17-32 XMTC
3 in 1 for around 1500 dollars is that a good price ?
Also does anyone have the companys web homepage address?
I cant seem to locate it thru live or google .
Thanks

if you are interested in talking to john taylors lieing ass the web address is shoptask.com. tele# 1-800-343-5775. good luck:)

Norvil1, I noticed that you are bashing shoptask in pretty much every post here, can you supply some facts to your rage? I am thinking about a shoptask machine and would love to know what I get into. So, what's your problem?
Lemo

lemo i am glad you ask about my apparent displeasure with shoptask and in
particular with john taylor,the ceo. when i inquired about the qualities of the
tri-power, i was promised that the machine would hold a positional accuracy of
.001. after taking john's word for that i paid john 9,987.00 us and the machine was delivered about three months late. the quality of what i was sold was poor at best. then i had to go about the task of correcting the most glaring problems first. after about ten minutes of operation, the wires burnt to the lathe motor
requiring the motors to be rewired. next the spindle had to be removed to correct the pin height for the collets to even seat in the spindle. the drive chain arrangement had to be repaired so the chain could be adjusted, which by the way is probably one of the noisiest drives i have ever heard. when the backlash was measured the lash was as follows: x axis .012, y axis .008 and z axis .013., hardly the promised precision and accuracy the webb site glowly talks about. next we found that when the bed travereses right to left it shifts .011 rocking motion, hardly a condition for accurate work. within 30 minutes of operation the control board starting blowing fuses requiring the replacement of
a servo motor, meaning more delays. after about 6 months of reworking,repairing i have the positional accuracy down to about .0015. in my opinion a brand new machine, after being advertised to be of the highest quality
to require that much work. john simpley got my money,ship me a piece of
sh-t and left it up to me to repair. to make a long story short i feel i was ripped off, and i dont feel like shoptask uses a ethical or trueful adervertising to
sell and support their product. as a result of my dealings with shoptask i will
spend the remainder of my life telling anyone willing to listen of my dealings with shoptask, and how i wasted 10,000 dollars on john taylors word about
their tri-powers quality.

respectfully yours
robert williams
601-584-8450
8-5 est.





respectfully yours,robert williams
petal,ms 601-584-8450

I feel bad about your experience. Did you buy that Patriot Model? The standard one has known issues and as I understand pretty much everybody knows that they have to replace a few tings on the way to go from a tolerable machine to a very good one.
Lemo

if you think tolerable machine has a backlash of .008 to .012 on cnc ballscrews
then buy 2, im sure you will be happy. and by the way the patriot model is a tri-power with a purple paint job.

No, that is not alright on ballscrews. Acme or comparable yes, and that would go along with the cost for them... but for ball screws that is disappointing. I probably end up buying a mill and retrofit it...
Lemo