Mighty Machines

[Rotary Ninja]

We just bought a large VTL made by Mighty. I was wondering if anyone on here has used them. Are they dependable?

[So not a Guru]

We had one in my last shop & it was a real workhorse. We had to replace most of the air circuit lines after about 5 years, because they kept splitting. The material they were made from was crappy, hopefully they have changed that. Otherwise it was a good sturdy machine with good repeatability.

 

Zeke

[rrichard]

•   Well, we bought a new  one like 4 years ago, about an 80" swing, with live tooling. Don't use the live tools very much little weak on horsepower.

Solid heavy, strong machine, the biggest problem we had is anytime we moved the rail, it tapered badly, factory never could fix it. It was so bad we would hardly use it.

Finally we realized that it only had one screw on one side to raise and lower the rail, it would rock, no matter what we did, the wedge locks would not set it correctly. So we had a very good technician come in and added another screw, etc. to time the rail and improved the locks.

   Great machine now, love  it, cuts really good and solid.

[Rotary Ninja]

Thanks for the feedback. Just wondering what to expect as since I will be programming the machine.