The 1100 I'm looking at is pretty well tooled. Comes with an 80/20 full enclosure, ATC, 4th axis with a pair of tombstones and tail stock, 2 Glacern 6" vises, Saunders fixture plate, vacuum pallet, diamond engraver, Mistaway collector, 39 TTS tool holders (18 end mill, 21 ER collet), 5 TTS drill chucks, Haimer Taster, TTS electronic probe, many soft jaws for the vises, shear hog, TTS flycutter, TTS slitting saw arbor, unmixed coolant, way oil, PathPilot controller with expanded memory, touch screen monitor, etc.
So I'll be overwhelmed for a while . . . Been browsing the 1100 manual on some work I'll need to do. The X has about 0.0005" play, but Y and Z are both at 0.0015". Looks like the dual ball nuts have a shim between them and there's a procedure for adjusting them after adjusting the gibs.
I'm a frequent visitor to the
Home Page - Projects and Articles on Our Forum! | The Hobby-Machinist forum, search under "BGHansen" for some of my posts there. My "go to" shop projects have been making reproduction parts for an old toy called an Erector set. Mainly focus on parts for the sets sold between 1913 - 1950. Lots of work with sheet metal, brass turnings, etc. My market is really soft right now as the collecting community is really getting long in the tooth. But I'm not buying the machine with the intent of making back what I spent on it, really more of a toy at this point. I turn 60 this year and am convinced one of the keys to healthy golden years is to continually challenge our brains. Yup, learning Solidworks and Sprutcam (or maybe just dump Solidworks into Fusion360 for the CAM) will challenge my brain plenty!
Bruce