Hit 40,000 parts on my Haas VF2 last Friday and it kinda messed me up

I was running the same 4140 job on the VF2 that I've had for 6 years and glanced at the cycle counter between cycles. 40,000 parts. Ran the math and that's about 8,900 hours of spindle time at Blue Ridge Machining in Asheville. I don't know why it got to me, maybe cause I remember the day they rolled it in and I thought it was way too much machine for what we do. Anybody else get weird when a machine outlasts a job you thought would never end?

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williams.sage1mo ago

40,000 parts at 8,900 spindle hours means your average cycle is only about 13 minutes, so that machine has basically been doing short repeat work its whole life. That's not some epic saga, that's just a VF2 doing exactly what it was built for, and plenty of shops retire machines at 15,000 hours with zero drama. The day they rolled it in you thought it was too much machine, but six years of steady work says the opposite, it fit the job fine and you got your money's worth. If it messed you up, it's probably because you're staring down the same 4140 job for year seven, not because the Haas did anything special.

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