2006 Haas VF-3B CNC Vertical Mill

The 2014 Haas VF-3B is a CAT-40 vertical machining centre that stretches 40-inch X, 20-inch Y and 25-inch Z travels across a 48-by-18-inch table rated 1500 lb, giving job-shops mill-turn flexibility inside a midsize footprint. Flood coolant is joined by a 300-PSI through-spindle line and programmable nozzle, so drills push clean chips out of eleven-inch depths without pecking, and finish tools hit with wash-free flutes. A two-speed gearbox drives the spindle to 7500 RPM with 20 HP and 90 ft-lb at 2000 RPM, letting carbide hog 4140 or skim aluminum with equal authority. Rapids tick 710 IPM and a forty-station side-mount ATC swaps cutters in 3 s chip-to-chip, meaning cycle time sinks while operators load the next tombstone. One-gigabyte NextGen control streams five-axis tool-paths over Ethernet or WiFi, rigid tapping stops thread pull-out, and drives for rotary tables arrive pre-wired—just bolt on a TR160 and index to work.

Compared with a same-year VF-3 base model that ships with a twenty-station ATC and flood-only coolant, this VF-3B doubles magazine capacity to forty tools, adds 300-PSI TSC and includes fifth-axis hardware—so it tackles family-of-parts runs and multi-face machining without manual fixture flips. Yet the casting, travels and 12500-lb mass stay identical, making the VF-3B a performance-tuned sibling rather than merely larger, all while sharing common spares and G-code with the entry trim.