Originally Posted by
extanker59
I ran a Haas horizontal (new in '96 or so) and was very disappointed. The pallet wouldn't reliably lock down. They had a weird screw type mechanism that would screw up into the pallet and pull it down. Some percentage of the time it would just make a clicking noise and time out with an alarm. The owner of the shop sent it back.
So, if it's the same type of pallet lock as that, don't do it. Don't know if they ever fixed the issue.
Very happy with the VF-2ss and VM-2 that I've run since then.