Vertical Machining Center Info

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Hi

I have two Hurcos (a VM1 & a VM10) as well as a Haas mini mill, to be honest the Haas is a bit of a sowing machine but it has a place for our small work. I can't fault the Hurcos - the VM range is the entry level machines without a gear box but we have tapped upto M30 x 3.5mm threads in steel - the only problem being the tap slipping in the collet chuck..................I'm sure hurco wouldn't approve but it has been possible. If your after high metal removal rates and want to take large cuts to achieve it most lighter weight VMC's may struggle a bit but to get around this we use Seco and WNT high feed milling cutters, the depth of cut varies from 0.5mm to 1.5mm but we've had feed rates up to 6500mm/min!!! These cutters have saved us no end of time, in some cases halved the running times on the programs

Here's a video of one of our Hurcos running the high feed cutters ~ http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/media....details&mid=62

What sort of work are you wanting to do?