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Old 02-20-2008, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by kwhizz
We've got 5 Haas machining Centers and haven't had a minutes problem with any of them............They are not in the Okuma zone, but are decent machines..............Just my $.02

Ken
I use there machines and here my problem

a 1/2" end mill .250 deep cut in 6061 and can stall out a VF3
using and old 8N mazak (8hp 1991) lathe doing a 1/8" deep pass on a piece of mild steel theres only 60% lod on the motor so like 5.5HP, on the haas SL20(2007 22hp "vector drive"), I have 96% load with the exact same cut, material and insert SFM and feed 22hp motors my ass! There like a honda's NO TORQUE
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