My new used $999 Router !!!

[jalessi]

http://www.pensketruckrental.com/bus...latbedCDL.html

[robertmonroe]

Thanks for the Penske link. I'll need a lot of patience and perseverance.

I also want to have some shipping companies give me a quote, and I need someone for the rigging too.

Anybody have any good sources for either in Seattle / Tacoma?

[cad01]

call your local machine reseller and ask who they recommend for transporting. We have used Morgan Industrial (www.morgan-industrial.com) quite a few times and I believe they have a office in Seattle.

[rrdiaz30]

15,000 - 20,000 pounds I was told.

YIKES!!! Will your foundation be able to handle the load? Great find!

Rick

[robertmonroe]

YIKES!!! Will your foundation be able to handle the load?

Rick

OMG!!!

Actually Yes.

[BobF]

I wonder which will cost more, the machine or the transportation?
Google says the straightline distance is 1376 miles. I figure a flatbed and tractor get no more than 6 mpg and diesel is around $2.78. That gives a fuel cost of $639.38.
These are all guesstimates. Here is the site I used if you want to play with it.
http://www.convertunits.com/drive/fr...to/El+Paso,+TX

[jalessi]

I would bet moving it will cost at least double the purchase price of the router.

[robertmonroe]

Double or more. I figured that when I made the purchase.

[bkboggy]

Still, even if you're talking about the total cost of the machine (including the moving) to be anywhere from $3,000 to $4,000, this is a great buy. It's tough to get a machine of that size with two working spindles for that price. Great buy in my opinion. Even if you decide to scrap it for parts, you're already making money.

[jalessi]

No doubt its a super deal, just difficult to move.

Jeff...

[robertmonroe]

I went and saw my Shinx Router, I was expecting to see something on the machine that I didn't like, too much rust, too beat up, etc.... I thought if no one else wants this router for $999 then there must be a reason. When I saw it I was amazed at how great of condition the machine is in, great shape, everything works, nothing broken. As well as maintained older big japanese CNC as you could hope to find. I was so happy and felt like I had to be pinched.

The machine will have to be brought home in two parts by unbolting the gantry. I got a few different quotes ranging from $6300 - $4300. That was the pinch. The router actually look bigger in real life than in pictures and it is a very massive machine. I went with the $4300 the company is insured and bonded with lots of experience. Really funny is that the person that quoted me $6300 is a different representative of the same company.

The machine was all hooked up and the movers told me they would have to hire an electrician to disconnect all the to the power to the wall and gantry including air & hydraulic lines. I spent a day and did it all myself it was not difficult and I'll know how to put it all back together when it gets home.

By the time I got the right qoute and struck a deal to bring it home the earliest that they can get the curtain van truck out there is Monday so it's scheduled to be loaded and shipped to it's new home Monday.

On Thursday when I was finishing up with the wiring I just happened to look looked under a workbench for a screw I dropped and found all the dust collector brushes for the spindles, several large rolls of sealing gasket for the vacuum table and fixtures, also I found the rectractable metal covers for the table Y-axis that protects the ballscrew form dust and debree. You can be sure I looked in every nook and cranny for any other items.

Building my controller for my Joe's 2006 helped me understand things better when I was disconnecting the wiring.

Now is the second part unloading the Shinx and get it back up and running. The shops next door to mine all have very large forklifts and such so getting the router off the flatbed should not cost me since we are all buddies and help each other out that way.

Seattle rocks that place is awesome, I drove up to Vancouver too. Big change from dried up, dusty El Paso.

Once it's set up this machine will pay for itself in 1-2 weeks.

[robertmonroe]

Here are the pictures of the rigging when the machine arrived here in El Paso, Texas. Seattle to El Paso is a long haul! I'm glad it's over with. I'm going to use a Galil 2133 Motion Controller and my PC to run the router using Mach3. The machine is not rusty just full of wood dust.