Kel
09-02-2007, 05:49 PM
I'm on vacation from Canada (14hr drive home) and stopped by a Sears just in case. There's only one machine and it's in clearance for $1100 because "the guy that returned it said one of the motors was burned out". They didn't have much more info than that except that the machine had shown some error on the screen that said a motor was burned out (or something to that effect... the sales guy wasn't really sure although he was the one who did the return 2 months ago). He told me it was the X motor that was trashed.
After a little cajoling I got them to actually plug the machine in for me and once they had found the card and reader I ran the program that was on the card. Went through all the menus right up to loading the board (which we couldn't do since they said they weren't allowed to actually power up any of the tools) and the cutter moved in X and Z axis.
My question - does any of this sound like it would stop you from buying the machine? There would only be manufacturers warranty on it since it is listed as damaged and if it was anything major it would be big shipping from Canada if the whole machine had to go. I'm reasonably handy with a wrench and multi-meter and not afraid to replace parts myself.
This thing was packed with MDF dust (every time we moved it, more would drop out) and I'm wondering if there was a sensor error or z-axis stall or something along those lines (all I know about the machine is from what I've read here).
Only constraint is that I have until tomorrow PM to buy or not since that's when I have to leave.
Thanks for any comments or opinions!
Kel
After a little cajoling I got them to actually plug the machine in for me and once they had found the card and reader I ran the program that was on the card. Went through all the menus right up to loading the board (which we couldn't do since they said they weren't allowed to actually power up any of the tools) and the cutter moved in X and Z axis.
My question - does any of this sound like it would stop you from buying the machine? There would only be manufacturers warranty on it since it is listed as damaged and if it was anything major it would be big shipping from Canada if the whole machine had to go. I'm reasonably handy with a wrench and multi-meter and not afraid to replace parts myself.
This thing was packed with MDF dust (every time we moved it, more would drop out) and I'm wondering if there was a sensor error or z-axis stall or something along those lines (all I know about the machine is from what I've read here).
Only constraint is that I have until tomorrow PM to buy or not since that's when I have to leave.
Thanks for any comments or opinions!
Kel