Sodick High Speed-Hard Mill anybody using??

[Kool Parts]

Anybody using one of the Sodick mills for High Speed Machining? In their video presentation the claim is it isn't just a high speed composite machine turned into a Hard Mill. But the other way around. Designed from the ground up for Hard Milling.
I would have to get used to having a 40,000 spindle Probably only HSK tooling for that RPM...not sure I like that part....
Seen a short video on Youtube with one of their 120,000 spindles I wonder what a set screw coming out of a holder at that speed sounds like

http://www.sodick.com/index.php?t=pr...&slide__id=238

[Unity]

I've been running a Sodick MC430L mill for three months now. I have to give it a 10 out of 10 score.
After working with it for a day, I could tell that they talked to NC operator and [U]listened[U] to what they had to say.
The machine comes standard with a laser tool setter and shrink fit tooling.

My latest project was milling four slide from solid. They shut off on a core pins, top and bottom in the center, and each other on the sides. The part was a medical gear.
In the past the side shutoffs would have been ground and the center would have been jig ground.
But I sucessfully finished milled all the shut off surfaces to zero.

What I'm really excited with this machine is that it uses Linear Motors. No more servo motors, screws and nuts to wear out. There is absolutely NO backlash, and never will be.

[SIG]

I was always interested in thoughs machines. What year is yours?
I wonder how well they'll hold up over the years.

[DareBee]

My uncle does a lot of hard milling. When he bought his last mill he demoed the Sodick and decided the Makino was better for him.

He also (after 30 years of nothing but Sodick) installed a new Makino plunge EDM, said the Sodick didn't compare.

I personally find the Sodick very interesting and I am very sure they are great machines, but I only need inexpensive mainstream machines for my work.