2001 Haas VF-3B CNC Vertical Mill

The 2001 Haas VF-3B is a CAT-40 vertical machining centre that stretches 40-inch X, 20-inch Y and 25-inch Z travels over a 48- by 18-inch table rated 3500 pound, giving job-shops midsize envelope muscle inside a 118- by 98-inch bay. A 20-horsepower two-speed gearbox turns the spindle to 7500 RPM and delivers 90 foot-pound at 2000 RPM, so carbide drills plunge alloy while finishing tools skate across aluminium mould cores without chatter. Flood coolant is joined by a factory 300-PSI through-spindle line and programmable nozzle, clearing chips from eleven-inch holes and boosting tool life. Rapids tick 710 IPM and the forty-station side-mount ATC swaps cutters in three seconds chip-to-chip, keeping spindle-on-time high. Haas NextGen control stores one-gigabyte programs, streams code over Ethernet or WiFi and arrives wired for rotary tables—bolt on a TR160 and index to simultaneous five-axis production.

Stack this VF-3B beside a same-year VF-3 with twenty-tool ATC and flood-only coolant and the B-trim doubles magazine capacity, adds 300 PSI TSC and ships with five-axis hardware, yet the casting weight stays 12500 pound and the footprint barely changes. The result is a production-ready sibling that tackles longer unattended runs and multi-face parts while the entry VF-3 remains the stepping-stone for simpler three-axis work.