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I just bought my second Haas CNC mill. I use them primarily to make parts for implantable medical devices, but they could just as easily make parts for small arms, guided missiles, or aircraft. Most big names in CNC machine tools are Eastern; Japanese, Taiwanese, or Chinese, with a few European. Haas, the biggest and most well known Western manufacturer of CNC machine tools, stands accused of continuing to supply Russian companies involved in military manufacturing, long after the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Documents filed with the U.S. Treasury and Department of Commerce indicate that RATEP is one of many Russian enterprises that Haas Automation has serviced with direct shipments of goods in that period.
Per the aforementioned PBS Newshour report, the American company allegedly approved as many as 18 shipments to Russia between March and October of 2022 to the tune of $2.8 million.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday March 21, @03:47AM
I'm tempted to grab one of these:
https://www.langmuirsystems.com/mr1 [langmuirsystems.com]
No toolchanger, but pretty heavy duty for a hobby mill. My Haas machines are CM-1's, with a 50,000rpm 20 taper, so they can't do heavy cutting. An MR-1 would handle fixture making and the occasional heavier one-off job.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek