This is the latest adventure. I bought two Cat 50 CNC machines: As you can see, they did not cost me too much. They are "Brute CNC" and one has a Mitsubishi control, another has a Celca S3045 CNC control. Both seem to be from 2000's. These are large machine, the biggest one weighs about 40,000 lbs and the smaller one, probably about 30,000 lbs. They both presumably work and were not even doing daily production work, they were at a cosmetics plant making extruder parts or whatever. My question is, even assuming the best about their condition, is there any hope of selling them for significantly more than their scrap and partout value. I assume about $8,000 scrap+parts for the big one and $6,000 for the smaller one. I can rig thise machines on a buyer's truck, and I have a couple of weeks at the auction site, however I would be loath to bring them to my warehouse. And my question is, how realistic would it be to expect to sell them for a lot more than scrap value in that short of a time frame? My past experience was moxed, I could sell some machines and not others. i

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

Do I have any hope of selling those huge CNC machines

Oct 17, 2014 65 Replies

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Michael A. Terrell 11 years ago

That, and the popularity of 'I'm with stupid' shirts.

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Jim Wilkins 11 years ago

"Glee" had the girl's arrow pointing up and the boy's pointing down.

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Tom Gardner 11 years ago

The left is NOT stupid...they are directed Evil.

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Michael A. Terrell 11 years ago

I don't watch that show. There was something similar on the Drew Carey Show, years ago. His redneck neighbor 'Peaches' is fired from a custom tee shirt business for printing them with the arrow pointing up. Drew tells her, "It's supposed to point to the side." She replied, "That could be funny too."

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Michael A. Terrell 11 years ago

Obaminions?

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pyotr filipivich 11 years ago

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sat, 25 Oct 2014

00:25:47 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

They may have been popular in the past, but now - they're running like gazelles from anything remotely connected to Obama.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

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