My name is Ken and I own a small job shop in northern CA and also run a medium manufacturing facility. We are taking on a job from a long term customer and going to need to ad equipment for a new job coming up.

I have always ran Haas machines, I currently own a sl30BB and a vf2.

Looking to ad a 2000 hs1-rp to the line up. Have no experience with Haas horizontals. The job we are taking on will in my opinion destroy the vf2 in short order I feel. We currently run parts in PVC and taking on identical parts in stainless.

The parts start out at 300+ pound stainless blanks.
they are 250 lbs after leaving the lathe, and once out of the mill will be around 150lbs. Will have lots of material removal.

We are hoping the rigidity of the hs1 will allow for better tool life and faster run times, also preloading on the outside will be huge since we are setting up a above head beam crane from lathe to horizontal.

We are currently running the pvc with a 4th axis in the vf2 and feel this won’t work well for the new parts.

Job should keep the sl30BB and hs1 busy for 6 months by my rough calculations.

Can anyone chime in on heavy cutting and rigidity of the Hs1?
Pros cons? Any insight would be awesome . I know the post it long. Going to go look at a machine Monday.

Thanks
Ken

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