Haven’t been at this new “hobby” for too long, but I’ve recently begun looking for a solid tube mod, and I think this might be it. I kept hoping to run across one of the, shall we say, “foreign,” high-end mods in the classies, but every time one comes up it’s either snatched up near instantaneously or I just can’t bring myself to pay that much for a “collector’s” item. I work at a fabrication facility and the ELA seems along the lines of the APV that I’d design if I made one here.
I have a question though: I thought on the previous incarnation of the website I saw reference to this device having some future compatibility/upgrades along the lines of integrated rebuildable atomizers and other attachments (I guess basically allowing you to turn this into a hybrid?), but I see nothing about this on the new website. Is this still the direction this device plans to go?
I wanted to add, too, that I feel your pain with the new machine- we just replaced one of our manual lathes with a Haas TL-3. It doesn’t have the bar feeder, or the milling capabilities of your beast there, but it still took us a month and a half to get it fully operational. Thank goodness it’s only one of 3 CNC lathes (still have 5 manuals too, one of which is a monster of a turret lathe) so it didn’t make us suffer too much.