I currently am in the market for a horizontal machine approx travel od 20x20x20. I am looking at the EC400, I own 2 VF3's 2 SL-20's and a Doosan Lathe. My question is does anyone use this machine is the another horizontial that is a good reliable machine. I machine mostly 6061-T-6 and a little bit of 356-T6

We just got a 500 last fall and so far it's been doing everything we had hoped and running fine ( knock on wood :) ). We had a few parts in mind when getting it and now that we got caught up running them I'm finaly getting around to making tombstones and moving some parts off are vf-4.Most of the parts we run are alluminum and doctil iron castings and havn't had any problems.If there was anything that is a little pain in the you know what,it would be with moving the chips out,the chip screw clossest to the controler shoud be right hand twist becouse the way it is now the chips just get pushed on a pile.All in all it we like it.