2001 Haas VF-2B CNC Vertical Mill

The 2015 Haas VF-3 is a twenty-tool CAT-40 vertical machining centre that slips 40-inch X travel into an affordable, rigid package, giving job-shops mould-grade power without a gantry price tag. Travels of 40-inch X, 20-inch Y, and 25-inch Z ride cast-iron box ways, while a 25-horsepower vector spindle reaches 8100 RPM to rough steel or finish aluminium alike. Factory 300 PSI through-spindle coolant with labyrinth filtration drills deep holes fast, a programmable coolant nozzle tracks tool length automatically, and one-gigabyte control memory drip-feeds complex five-axis files over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. 24-station side mount changer, chip auger and rigid tapping complete the production-ready kit.

Compared with Haas’s VF-2 of the same year, the VF-3 stretches X-stroke by ten inches, mounts a table that accepts 3000-pound fixtures, and arrives with through-spindle coolant—an extra-cost upgrade on its sibling. Both share CAT-40 taper, 8100 RPM spindle, and twenty-station ATC, but the VF-3’s heavier 12500-pound casting suppresses chatter and allows deeper cuts, making it the clear production choice where bigger parts and coolant-assisted drilling pay daily dividends.