If you have time, and you have smarts ( YOU DO!) you can get something cheaper. If you know what to do with a tool, its never money lost IF its cash in hand. thats a whole different ball game, but I finally got it running (rats had made a nest in the control pendant under storage). A spindle swap (that I hand in hand) and thrust bearings, and I'm a happy camper.Īlso picked up a Mitutoyo CMM for dirt as nobody knew how to use it. I picked up a '99 4020 Fadal for 3K locally after it failed to sell at auction. IF you are able to hold out, there are good deals out there, but they are rare. The GOOD used machines go state side, just like our pickup trucks. Its guys that are closing shop selling on kijiji for a premium. Im in southern Onterrible, and the used machine market is absolute shit. So anyhow, plan right now is to finish moving and get the shop all back in order, might also try to get more than 3hrs of sleep tomorrow night I know the taiwan and other less known brands would be a pain or impossible to get parts/technical info for, so in all reality I don't really want to go down to that level, hard enough to get anything out of some of the bigger guys eh. Whatever brand I buy there's about a 99.9% chance I'm the guy fixing it, and if I really can't someone has to be flown in, big part of why I wanted a fairly basic 2 axis, belted spindle, less stuff to go wrong than Y and all that. Other problem, many brands never sold a machine in my region the last 20-30yrs if ever at all, I think this is part of why some don't seem interested to sell around here. I'm also not interested to spend 50-60+% of the price of a new machine on a 15-20yr old thing that's been crashed who knows how many times. But I don't have much of that kind of work and I'm getting too tired of this sh*t to fight to find it, at that point I might as well keep doing what I'm doing a few more years, and maybe see if there's something else to life than just making parts to pay bills.Ĭanada has no used cnc market, none I've ever found, it nearly all goes to the US if there's auctions, if a shop sells a used machine in my area its because its dead. It appears if I want some service and a higher end machine(jap brand) I need to double the money, by which point I might as well add Y-axis and maybe a sub spindle too. Initially was looking for a fairly basic 2 axis, 8-10" chucker with good tailstock, something in the 70-85K(usd) range that I wouldn't have to finance or stress about, sign a cheque, done, that hasn't quite worked out so far.
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