I'm looking at picking up a 1990-2000 era VMC for a couple jobs that are coming up. I'm between a few machine makes:
-Matsuura
-Mori Seiki
-Cincinnati
I'm finding that comparably sized machines (I'm looking in the 20"ish X travel size) put the Cincinnati machines at the lower price end. I certainly appreciate the heavy duty build of boxway Matsuura's and Mori's, but I haven't a good appreciation for how well Cincinnati's perform. I notice that most of my tool and die friends have Matsuura VMCs but I haven't got any good info on Cincinnati machines.
My own jobs aren't going to be doing very heavy hogging cuts in steel so I'm open to considering other makes if I can save some dough. Can anyone give me some sense of comparison between Mats and Mori made VMCs to a Cincinnati?
How is Cincinnati in terms of service and parts supply? Are Cincinnati's well worked out? I've got roughly comparable Hardinge and Daewoo lathes. While they both perform pretty well, I certainly like some of the little tweaks that make the Hardinge work a bit better.
Thanks for your input!