Used Yasda Machines We Buy

Who Builds Yasda Machines

Yasda machines are built by YASDA PRECISION TOOLS K.K., whose head office and factory are in Satosho-cho, in Okayama, Japan. The company dates its founding to 1929, when Shinjiro Yasuda set up Strong Shoukai in Osaka City to bore automobile engine cylinders. In 1944 the war forced the factory out to what is now Kasaoka City in Okayama, and the business took the name Yasuda Kogyo, rendered in English as YASDA PRECISION TOOLS K.K. Head office and factory moved to the Sasayama site in Satosho-cho in 1969.

Yasda reached machine tools through boring work. Its history records the Jig Master, a precision horizontal boring and milling machine, in 1964, and its first Precision Center machining center in 1966. On this side of the Pacific, Yasda Precision America Corp., a subsidiary established in 1997, supports owners from Schaumburg, Illinois, and Yasda names Methods Machine Tools as its US agent.

Yasda's Lines and Controls

Yasda splits its current range into families, and the YBM name crosses several of them: it covers the CNC jig borers, the Precision Center machining centers and a group of five-axis machines, as the table below shows. The H40i family is a horizontal five-axis line, the PX30i is a pallet cell, and the YMC 430 and YMC 650 are what Yasda calls Micro Centers, aimed at micro and precision machining.

On the current YBM 640V, YMC 430, H40i and PX30i pages the NC unit is a FANUC 31i-B5 Plus. Older Yasdas carry earlier FANUC generations, so read us the control model off the screen or the cabinet rather than assuming.

Yasda's Current Machine Families

Yasda's English product page groups its current machines this way. The list is the page as it stood when we wrote this one, and older models drop off it:

Older models that turn up in our listings, among them the YBM-90N, the plain H40 and the H-30i, are not on Yasda's current page.

Accuracy, Spindle and Magazine: What a Yasda Is Judged On

People buy a Yasda for accuracy, so the questions are about whether yours still has it. Yasda hand scrapes every mounting face of the guide ways, builds its spindles in house, and circulates temperature-controlled oil through the main castings to keep the geometry steady. It publishes the record of one YBM 60N: positioning accuracy of ±0.001 on X, Y and Z in October 1993, and ±0.002 on X and Y in May 2016, after 116,000 hours of use. A recent accuracy or ballbar report on your machine is the most useful single document you can send.

Configuration is the other half. A PX30i ships with 323 tools and 33 pallets as standard; an H40i starts at 60 tools and 2 pallets and can grow to 240 tools and 24 pallets; a YMC 430 comes with an HSK-E32 spindle, and Yasda offers a faster HSK-E25 spindle in its place. Give us the tool and pallet count and the spindle fitted, not only the model name.

The Yasda Models We See Most

More of our Yasda listings are YBM machines than any other family: jig borers such as the YBM-640V and YBM 9150V, the YBM 15T, which at 2,100 mm of X travel is the biggest Precision Center on Yasda's current list, and older N-series machines like the YBM-90N and YBM-1000N. Next come YMC 430 micro centers and the H-series horizontals, the H40, H40i and H-30i.

Yasda's own history adds a wrinkle on the older ones. In 1980 it transferred the technology for building the YBM-90N machining center to a company in Hungary, and in 2001 it transferred the H40 to KONDIA in Spain. On a YBM-90N or an H40, read the builder's name on the plate as well as the model, and send us both.

Yasda America Service, or Selling Outright

Yasda Precision America keeps Japanese mechanical and electrical specialists for after-sales work, and its service list runs to spindle exchange, ball screw exchange, guide way adjustment, hand scraping, foundation vibration tests and retrofit consultations. That is the route for a Yasda you mean to keep in tolerance. For one you would rather see off the floor, we buy it outright, and a record of a spindle exchange or rescraping from Yasda service is worth including in what you send us.

What the 28 Yasda Listings Actually Are

Every one of the 28 listings on this page is a Yasda: one brand, not a broader category with a Yasda filter over it. The catalog files those 28 rows three ways, 18 under Metal Cutting, 8 under CNC Vertical Machining Centers (VMC) and 2 under CNC Horizontal Machining Centers (HMC). Metal Cutting is the catalog's generic parent heading rather than a machine type, so most of these rows are not filed to a specific type at all. Eighteen is not a milling count. Across the 28 listings sit 24 distinct model strings, so repeats are rare and most units get scoped on their own rather than as one of a run. Twenty-two of the 28 carry a build year, running from 1980 to 2020, and six carry no year at all. If you are selling rather than browsing, the string on your data plate is what places the machine against these rows.

YBM Is the Largest Block on This Page

Ten of the 28 listings carry a YBM designation, which makes it the largest block here. YBM is a designation Yasda uses across its jig borers and Precision Center machining centers, and the strings a searcher would actually type are here in full: YBM-640V twice, then YBM 9150V, YBM 15T, YBM-90N, YBM-100J, YBM-900N, YBM-1000N-125RPC and YBM-1000N- once each, plus one row carried as a bare YBM with no size on it. YBM-1000N-125RPC and YBM-1000N- are two separate strings in our records, not one model counted twice. That is nine distinct strings across ten listings, and YBM-640V is the only one that repeats, so a YBM here is usually a single unit rather than one of a matched pair. The catalog's own filing shows how wide the designation runs: of those ten rows, 6 sit under Metal Cutting, 3 under CNC Vertical Machining Centers and 1 under CNC Horizontal Machining Centers. Tell us what the plate reads and we will place it correctly.

The YMC 430, in Six Different Spellings

Eight of the 28 listings begin with YMC, and every one of the eight is a 430. One machine size accounting for more than a quarter of a brand hub is worth saying plainly. The spelling spread matters, because a searcher types one form and our catalog carries six: YMC-430-VER.-II twice, YMC-430 twice, then YMC-430 V2, YMC-430 V2 5-AXIS, YMC430 and YMC430 5 AXIS VMC once each. Those are six separate strings in our records, not one model with a count of eight, and we scope them that way. Two of the eight carry five-axis wording inside the model text itself, one written 5-AXIS and one written 5 AXIS. That is a fact about how the row was written down, not a category this catalog files any Yasda under, so do not read it as a claim about what we stock. The six rows that roll up under the YMC key are filed 3 as Metal Cutting and 3 as CNC Vertical Machining Centers.

What Determines the Offer on a Used Yasda

Jason Puuri scopes a Yasda himself rather than running it through a formula, and the 1980 to 2020 span across the dated listings here is why. A machine from the start of that span and one from the end are two different conversations under the same nameplate. What he looks at, in order: the model and how it is configured, the build year, spindle hours if tracked, the control and its generation, whether the machine still holds tolerance, the tooling and fixturing that come with it, whether a rotary or pallet arrangement is attached, and what the foundation and the re-installation look like at the other end. That last one gets skipped more than it should. Photos of the control screen and the work envelope help and are not required. A quote comes back in 24 to 48 hours, MTE can arrange rigging, freight and the pickup.

H Designations, and the Rest of the 28

That leaves 10 listings outside YBM and YMC, and the partition is exact: 10 YBM, 8 YMC, 6 H, 3 bare VMC and 1 YNM640V adds to 28 with nothing left over. Six rows begin with H, across five spellings: H30I twice, then H40, H40i, H-30i and H-30 I once each. Yasda builds the H40i as a horizontal 5-axis machining center, but the catalog does not file these six rows as horizontals. The catalog files exactly 2 listings under CNC Horizontal Machining Centers, and one of those two is a YBM, so the H rows and the HMC rows are different sets and we will not blur them. Three rows carry a bare VMC string, written as VMC 430, VMC and VMC430, and one is recorded as YNM640V. We carry those as written rather than guessing at what was meant. Past these 28 we also buy Makino, Okuma, Mazak, DMG MORI and Doosan equipment, which matters when a Yasda sits on a mixed floor.

Selling One Yasda or Clearing a Floor

This hub is the only Yasda seller page on the site. Machine Tool Exchange is the buyer. Not a broker, not an auction platform, not a listing service. We purchase outright, with no consignment, no listing and no auction wait, and we can arrange the pickup. A Yasda does not have to be running for us to make an offer: idle under power, waiting on a repair decision, or already disconnected during a changeover all get scoped. One machine or a full cell goes on one quote, one contact and one pickup schedule. MTE is an affiliate of Superior Machine Tools out of Lansing, Michigan, and we buy in all 50 states. One thing speeds closing: proof the company owns the machine outright rather than still paying it off under a lease. If the Yasda sits on a floor that also holds a Makino or an Okuma, those go on the same quote.