Agreed! Makes one wonder if the VF1 is going to be put out to pasture or relegated to the department of redundancy department.On the existing MiniMill the Z travel is not increased, just the height. The entire top of the machine is lifted up on a spacer between the base casting and the column casting. It is very useful for vise or rotary work but means you cannot reach closer than about 3 inches above the table with standard length tooling.
The travels in Mini2 look very good if it is in the same footprint.