What are some other machines that are around the same price and performance as Haas machines besides Fadals?
What are some other machines that are around the same price and performance as Haas machines besides Fadals?
Haas has a very broad range of machines so I don't think there is any one answer to your question.
If you could narrow it down to a single Haas machine, that would make it easier.
I have a TM1 and in that class of machine I don't think Haas has any competition. Fadal use to make a toolroom mill but I believe they discontinued it.
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Dont know about "performance" but price was compairable when I was looking.
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The VF-SS series are very capable machines and my first experience with one... I was impressed with the performance.
If you have the ability to drive high-speed toolpaths, then the machines are capable enough for most general CNC work.
Haas is the Coca-Cola of the machine tool world. They do an excellent job with marketing, have a good product for most machining environments and back that product with good customer support. They've become as American as apple pie while overshadowing better domestic-built machines in this category, like the Hardinge XR-series. Then again, Hardinge is multi-national, like so many large companies these days. If you look under the hood of any of them, you'll find lots of Japanese and European parts, so it's all a matter of picking the tool that fits your budget and can get the work out there door. Haas is plenty capable of delivering on that front.
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milltronics? Also made in america.
I've heard good things about Doosan and Hyundai-Kia machines. Don't know there price range though. I personally think Hurco's are not any less reliable than HAAS, but both have there up's and downs. I think Hurco's are more rigid and easier to program on the shop floor while HAAS are better suited in the production/CAD-CAM environment.
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what are you wanting to make? what materials? what tolerances? what sizes? your workload should determine your choices.