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Posted by Prometheus on July 3, 2008, 9:03 pm
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Hello all,
I'm thinking about making an offer on an old knee mill at work. I've
been wanting one for at home for a while, and this one is broken and
getting in my way all the time.
What it is is an old Matsuura manual knee mill with a 3 axis digital
readout and no flood coolant. Somebody did something incredibly nasty
to the knee before I started there, and the area that the screw jack
bears on broke away inside, and also snapped the shaft that goes from
the handle to the jack.
They've written the thing off as junk, and I think the plan was to
sell it on ebay, but I've looked at the damage and know I can fix it
more or less as good as new. It's been pretty well used, like every
manual I've seen, the guys in the shop beat it mercilessly because it
isn't a CNC, but aside from the busted knee, it's serviceable. And,
buying it would get the damn thing out of my way at work, and put it
back into service.
There's a good chance the boss will let me have it on a
payroll-deduction plan, but I'm trying to figure out what I can expect
to offer him without simply being offensive. I figure that it will
cost me about $50 and twenty hours or so to make new parts and fix it
up, so I don't think I want to pay more than $300-500- considering I
could get a brand new one for about 2 grand.
So, what do you guys think- I don't mind doing the work to patch it
up, and I've done things like this before with good results, but I
just don't have much idea of what I should offer for the thing. Does
$300 sound way too low? I know I could part the thing out for far
more than that, but even that's a lot of work they're not going to do.
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Posted by Ignoramus9935 on July 3, 2008, 9:06 pm
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Maybe $200. You may be underestimating the cost to rebuild it.
i
> Hello all,
>
> I'm thinking about making an offer on an old knee mill at work. I've
> been wanting one for at home for a while, and this one is broken and
> getting in my way all the time.
>
> What it is is an old Matsuura manual knee mill with a 3 axis digital
> readout and no flood coolant. Somebody did something incredibly nasty
> to the knee before I started there, and the area that the screw jack
> bears on broke away inside, and also snapped the shaft that goes from
> the handle to the jack.
>
> They've written the thing off as junk, and I think the plan was to
> sell it on ebay, but I've looked at the damage and know I can fix it
> more or less as good as new. It's been pretty well used, like every
> manual I've seen, the guys in the shop beat it mercilessly because it
> isn't a CNC, but aside from the busted knee, it's serviceable. And,
> buying it would get the damn thing out of my way at work, and put it
> back into service.
>
> There's a good chance the boss will let me have it on a
> payroll-deduction plan, but I'm trying to figure out what I can expect
> to offer him without simply being offensive. I figure that it will
> cost me about $50 and twenty hours or so to make new parts and fix it
> up, so I don't think I want to pay more than $300-500- considering I
> could get a brand new one for about 2 grand.
>
> So, what do you guys think- I don't mind doing the work to patch it
> up, and I've done things like this before with good results, but I
> just don't have much idea of what I should offer for the thing. Does
> $300 sound way too low? I know I could part the thing out for far
> more than that, but even that's a lot of work they're not going to do.
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Posted by Wes on July 3, 2008, 9:12 pm
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>So, what do you guys think- I don't mind doing the work to patch it
>up, and I've done things like this before with good results, but I
>just don't have much idea of what I should offer for the thing. Does
>$300 sound way too low? I know I could part the thing out for far
>more than that, but even that's a lot of work they're not going to do.
Check price for scrap in that sized chunks. Offer him 125% and you move it out
of the
plant. Since it hasn't been fixed, it is junk, and in the way.
Wes
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Posted by Artemus on July 3, 2008, 9:35 pm
Please log in for more thread options If they've really written it off as junk then the value to the company is zero.
I'd offer to remove it on my own time to "get this junk out of the way and
to save the company time/money they'd have to spend to get rid of it".
Worst case they say no. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Then ask them how much and negotiate from there.
Art
> Hello all,
>
> I'm thinking about making an offer on an old knee mill at work. I've
> been wanting one for at home for a while, and this one is broken and
> getting in my way all the time.
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Posted by Grant Erwin on July 3, 2008, 9:41 pm
Please log in for more thread options I would tend to agree, except that way they'd start pulling good stuff off
of it.
Grant
Artemus wrote:
> If they've really written it off as junk then the value to the company is zero.
> I'd offer to remove it on my own time to "get this junk out of the way and
> to save the company time/money they'd have to spend to get rid of it".
> Worst case they say no. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
> Then ask them how much and negotiate from there.
> Art
>
>
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I'm thinking about making an offer on an old knee mill at work. I've
>>been wanting one for at home for a while, and this one is broken and
>>getting in my way all the time.
>
>
>
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> I'm thinking about making an offer on an old knee mill at work. I've
> been wanting one for at home for a while, and this one is broken and
> getting in my way all the time.
>
> What it is is an old Matsuura manual knee mill with a 3 axis digital
> readout and no flood coolant. Somebody did something incredibly nasty
> to the knee before I started there, and the area that the screw jack
> bears on broke away inside, and also snapped the shaft that goes from
> the handle to the jack.
>
> They've written the thing off as junk, and I think the plan was to
> sell it on ebay, but I've looked at the damage and know I can fix it
> more or less as good as new. It's been pretty well used, like every
> manual I've seen, the guys in the shop beat it mercilessly because it
> isn't a CNC, but aside from the busted knee, it's serviceable. And,
> buying it would get the damn thing out of my way at work, and put it
> back into service.
>
> There's a good chance the boss will let me have it on a
> payroll-deduction plan, but I'm trying to figure out what I can expect
> to offer him without simply being offensive. I figure that it will
> cost me about $50 and twenty hours or so to make new parts and fix it
> up, so I don't think I want to pay more than $300-500- considering I
> could get a brand new one for about 2 grand.
>
> So, what do you guys think- I don't mind doing the work to patch it
> up, and I've done things like this before with good results, but I
> just don't have much idea of what I should offer for the thing. Does
> $300 sound way too low? I know I could part the thing out for far
> more than that, but even that's a lot of work they're not going to do.