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You should also take into consideration whether or not the procedure you wish to perform can be done by another machine.
Shapers have fallen by the wayside for a number of reasons. While they may be versatile, they are slow.
Remember the old adage “You can make anything on a shaper except money.”
They were the precursor to the vertical milling machines. Once the vertical mills were perfected, they could do nearly anything a shaper could do in a fraction of the time. Shapers were built to work in a world where time is money. They became obsolete when faster more versatile machines came on the scene.
Shapers have fallen by the wayside for a number of reasons. While they may be versatile, they are slow.
Remember the old adage “You can make anything on a shaper except money.”
They were the precursor to the vertical milling machines. Once the vertical mills were perfected, they could do nearly anything a shaper could do in a fraction of the time. Shapers were built to work in a world where time is money. They became obsolete when faster more versatile machines came on the scene.
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