On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:10:09 -0600, you wrote:
It may be true that Tormach designed the casting, although I don't see
much need to as there are many existing slug designs. They probably did
design the sheet metal. But the spindle, belts, pulleys, electronics,
motors, ball screws, couplers,
On 01/29/2014 11:10 PM, Len Shelton wrote:
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It may be true that Tormach designed the casting, although I don't see
much need to as there are many existing slug designs.
Then it would be a Chinese machine with Tormach's name on it. It's a
Tormach machine which happens to be made in
I have been traveling to China for many years and know many of the
machine tool factories around the Shanghai area including the one who
makes the Tormach machines. I have a long time friend in the machine
tool business over there who knows all of the factories and who makes
what for who. None
On 28 January 2014 04:16, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote:
Is the Tormach mill a design unique to that company or do they take some
off the shelf Chinese mill and wrap it up all fancy with added parts?
http://www.tormach.com/our_story.html
Seems to state that the parts are made in Asia
While it is just another Chinese built benchtop mill I think you will find
that they designed it from the ground up including the CNC system to their
own specs so it is quite different from most of the other benchtop machines
available out there. It has a loyal following and some of the pictures I
On 01/28/2014 03:37 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 28 January 2014 04:16, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote:
Is the Tormach mill a design unique to that company or do they take some
off the shelf Chinese mill and wrap it up all fancy with added parts?
http://www.tormach.com/our_story.html
Is the Tormach mill a design unique to that company or do they take some
off the shelf Chinese mill and wrap it up all fancy with added parts?
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On 01/27/2014 10:16 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
Is the Tormach mill a design unique to that company or do they take some
off the shelf Chinese mill and wrap it up all fancy with added parts?
I think, from talking to the Tormach guys at some meetings,
that it started out as made from some pretty
