Do I have any hope of selling those huge CNC machines

it is a shame, but industry won't touch them. And they are too big for most basements :)

If it were me, I'd put them up on eBay for one week, then scrap them when/if you don't get a bite.

Karl

Or try letting one of the big used-machinery dealers broker them. Those guys usually are in touch with shops that buy big machines. If they don't have to ship it or warehouse it, they might make a deal.

I won't recommend one, because I'm wary of all of them.

Sadly, no :(

They are just to big for a small shop and too old for any production environment. They are even too big to donate to some sort of "makerspace". I'd still list them for a week on the off chance someone has a need, but shipping would probably be prohibitive for any place not local to you.

OK, I think that the collective wisdom is that they will not sell. This is fine with me, as the iron is worth a lot more than what I paid and the servos, cards, pumps and so on will all add up quite a bit.

i

You might try calling some big machinery places and see if they have any interest. Maybe they would have a place for the machines and would sell for some percentage of the sales price.

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They have machines of that size and a bridge crane to pick the machines off and on trucks. They just are not local to you.

Dan

The scrap+parts value of this machine is about 8,000 dollars. Doubtfully a dealer will want to pay more than that, plus they are all assholes.

i

I am also wary of all of them, had enough dealing with dealers.

i

Yep, this is what I will do. I do have a week.

Good point about the oil patch. You wouldn't believe the amount of activity out there. its the Wild Wild West.

Karl

Or down here in Texas in the Eagle Ford Shale. Every time we drive down to the condo (Galveston), I see drilling equipment on hot shot trucks, new tank farms, refurbishing in old facilities, etc.

But with oil prices dropping, does anybody remember the '80's bust? I'd hate to see that again here.

Pete Keillor

Thanks...

These Spanish controls use special Spanish G-codes: G-uno, G-dos, G-tres etc

And the special homing code, G-whiz.

What's the difference between these and new? How are they obsolete?

Except they're mills.

Speeds and feeds most likely. The new stuff is scary fast. Also more and more 5axis to reduce setups.

Hey, Ig, I just got the following email from John Carroll:

Hey Ed, You can tell Iggy that those two mills carry the Cardenas brand because Kurt and his sister Holly had a run at importing iron.

They are in Detroit if he wants to call them. Cardenas & Son.

Gee, Tom is asking questions and has finally started acting like an adult. Go to yahoo, Google or MSN and type in four simple words: "3rd printing vs cnc"

Right now,"The Kid" is doing nothing but setting up new 5axis machines and programming. With this and other optimizing things, they are reducing time to make a part by a factor of five.

If anyone is interested, the limiting factor is finding enough highly trained help to get the new stuff running right.

karl

New ones are faster, more accurate, Ethernet enabled, etc.

i