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They're a small shop, this will be their first swiss machine. I'm doing a 500 piece capability run after holding a cpk of 2.92 on a +/- .001" feature on a 30 piece run. 17-4 stainless, the endmill cutting the flat lasted 300 pieces before it started pushing a burr, but 2 turning tools and the cutoff tool still going strong at 450 pieces. I've moved 2 offsets <.0005 and that's it.

They're a small shop, this will be their first swiss machine. I'm doing a 500 piece capability run after holding a cpk of 2.92 on a +/- .001" feature on a 30 piece run. 17-4 stainless, the endmill cutting the flat lasted 300 pieces before it started pushing a burr, but 2 turning tools and the cutoff tool still going strong at 450 pieces. I've moved 2 offsets <.0005 and that's it.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

They're great machines... I've been in manufacturing for 35 ish years, the past 10 years has been working for an Okuma distributor who also is the Nomura distributor for North America. 2 years ago they decided to make me an application engineer for the Swiss line. I've worked with Citizens and Stars for a few years, and now Nomuras. I'd pick Citizen and Nomura for ease of use, functionality, capability. But Nomuras are far and above a better price across the board. This year they're rolling out a 26mm series on a few models for the American market, making it possible to run 1" stock. I don't know if we'll have one for IMTS this year or not. Fingers crossed!

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That sounds like a pretty sweet gig, met a guy that was a distributor for Haas and his stories plus what you said make it sound awesome. I've been out of the machining world for about 10 years. I miss it, but my eyes aren't what they used to be so it's probably for the best.