Hey LA Ceramics, not to "make you look like a dummy". And to first qualify my post, yes I am a Roland distributor. We operate 6 Rolands day and night here at CAP. Milling mostly zirconia then PMMA and wax. Several of the mills are now over two years old, some have all original parts and have milled over 20K units and counting. In addition, we have well over a hundred Roland mill laboratories in North America all cranking away. Many have more than one Roland mill. The mill provides implacable fits, mills the most complex geometries, like full arch screw retained full arch restorations and they just keeps cranking. Not to say they will run forever without a repair. No mill will. The nice thing about Roland, if a repair is needed the price point is reasonable. We looked at a DMG mill several years ago. Great mill. I don't recall the life expectancy of the spindle (i think it was 4000 hours),but I do remember the cost of replacement was $60K. That's the price for two new DWX50's.
Just the fact that the manufacturer provides a two year warranty speaks for the quality of the mill. To my knowledge there is not another in our industry that goes for more than a year. For milling soft dental materials there simply is not a a better mill at or near this price point.
In addition, there are several hundreds of posts here on DLN on Roland DWX50. When you find a negative Roland posts it always seems to come from an individual that doesn't own one. Just because Roland developed a mill that is designed differently than most industrial mill doesn't make it bad. In fact, for for a mill at this price point I think it's ingenious. Look at Tesla. It's different. Would you like to drive one. I would. Different doesn't necessarily relate to inferior.
