Blew $800 on a 5-axis vise setup I didn't even need

Last year I got talked into buying this fancy 5-axis vise kit for my Haas VF-2 because the salesman said it would save me hours on complex parts. I dropped $800 on it thinking I was upgrading my whole setup. Turns out 90% of the jobs that come through my shop are simple 2.5D stuff that a standard Kurt vise handles just fine. After three months I had used the angled jaws exactly once on a custom bracket job that could have been done with a sine plate for a fraction of the cost. The thing just sits in my tool cabinet collecting dust now. Anyone else get suckered into buying high-end fixturing that ends up being overkill for their actual work?

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the_kevin1d ago

At least you've got a really expensive paperweight now.

susan35019h ago

This thing could actually be worth something someday if it's a collector's edition or soldered wrong. People pay crazy money for broken hardware from the first run of certain models. Unless he really needed a working computer right now, holding onto it isn't a total loss.