Quote Originally Posted by Snapper View Post
People can and do do great work on tormach’s, particularly the 1100, in all sorts of materials from wood and plastics to tool steels and titanium.

You missed, "On a good day, with a following wind, if they're lucky and not for long" out of that, the same or better is also true of cheaply converted manual mills, which until they add linear ways, zero-backlash ball screw systems and servos with absolute positioning, is what you get when you buy a Tormach, having spent money which should be getting you some considerably better components.
They sound good in the advertising hype but I assume you haven't worked in the materials you quote as some Tool Steels and Titanium Alloys are among the easiest metals to machine with the right tooling, feeds and speeds.


Quote Originally Posted by Snapper View Post
There are other machines of similar flavours in the way of novakon, skyfire, syil etc. all of which have users doing great work in harder stuff and holding size when they need them to, .
A quick Google and watching the sponsored YouTube content would lead a person to your conclusions, you need to join the forums and private groups for a given machine to get a better overview, some of them are simply not of merchantable quality as delivered, why not read around the subject a little for the one's you've quoted and tell me why? :D