Re: Is a Tormach capable of making this part in small production qtys?
I'm in kind of the same situation. I built a bunch of parts on a manual lathe and my CNC mill. But the production need is projected to increase in the next couple of months. The CNC mill is adequate, but manually turning/milling the parts is much too slow for the anticipated volume, be doing batches of 50 to 100 parts. So I found a used CNC lathe with live tooling, $11,000. Going to combine the lathe and mill work on those parts into one operation. Should save about 20 min per part. In addition to the time savings on turning the other related parts. Even at that, I expect the CNC lathe to sit idle most of the time.Sometime ya just gotta take a chance.
Jim Dawson
Sandy, Oregon, USA