Industrial/hobby robot arm

What kind of load and/or performance are you looking for? What kind of price
range?

I just happened to come across the below post in c.r.research. Maybe you
could get a near-freebie?

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Free Used GE Robots
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Hi everyone - The University of Massachusetts, Amherst Robotics lab has
some older equipment that we no longer use.  We're moving to new lab
space, so we thought it was time to find a new home for our robots.
We're offering them for free to any research group.  Any takers would
be responsible for shipping costs, and for helping us fill out all the
paperwork required by our University for transfer.  Our robots are all
old GE industrial models:  two P50s, one P60, and two A4s.  If you are
interested, please contact me for more information.  We would really
like to have these robots be in use rather than sitting in a junk pile
(that's their current destination).

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ebay. I have seen nice arms for under $5000 there. Sure, they are older and
they have a huge cabinet for the electrics, but you asked for cheap ;-). And
if there's none in right now, just check again every week.

   Depending on what you`re using it for; an old CNC machine might do?
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