I'm looking at getting a TL-1 for my small shop. I do really small runs and not many long production jobs.
I've been doing lots of mill turning but I waste lots of time on setups and G-Code.

Anyways, I'm looking at a pretty clean TL-1 from 2008 but it has 12k cutting hours on it. To me, that seems like lots of hours but I thought I'd check out other folks opinions.
That is roughly 1000 hours per year which is 20 hours a week or 3 full days a week. I know it depends on the usage and maintenance, but how worn out is a machine like that when it comes to spindle bearings, rails, and ball screws?

Of course the machine is clean and painted, no scoring on the rails, sounds fairly smooth. Not sure what one like this is worth. They're asking 15k which also seems pretty high. no Rigid tap, no turret.

Richard