commercial equipment

recently started reading this NG and enjoy many of the posts, have woodworked for over 35 years on a lot of different equipment mostly commercial and come across a lot of auctions, recently purchased altendorf F-45 elmo and resold and was wondering if this group ever discusses this category and size machinery as it can be picked up for a fraction of it's original cost ocassionally

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Madeuce50bmg
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Funny you should mention it. A friend of mine has a son that is a cabinetmaker, his boss picked up an altendorf at auction two weeks ago. He paid $90 000 for a 6 month old, $225 000 machine due to some other guy going bust.

(that's Australian $)

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Greg Millen

It's mostly hobbyist wooddorkers and the majority would have to Google Altendorf prior to realizing it's way out of their league.

If you ever come across an vintage commercial equipment you are free to come over to the OWWM for some good hearted banter.

OWWM The Discussion Group:

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The Web Site:
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Please note, the rules for what is vintage are, must be at least 20 years old and/or no longer being manufactured.

Really not a lot when it comes to guidelines (1), just keeping things simple.

(1) There is more to it, the rules that is, and you will get a nice little message from the mean old ogre who runs the discussion group but as long as you read and follow what he says you'll be fine.

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Unisaw A100

i bought this one for a little over 10000 US$ and needed a few hours cleaning and adjusting, sold for considerably more but no where near 90k, purchased a huge tannewitz bandsaw for under 1000 mainly because it needed a floor relief under it. the bigger and more specialized the equipment i.e. profilers, tenoners, and cnc contouring equipment the better the price break get unless you run into an opposing buyer who specifically wants it, a lot of this equipment can be adapted to hobby or semi professional use if you have the room and will surpass the performance of readily available (grizzly, jet, craftsman) machinery at just a little more cost

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Madeuce50bmg

The machines are cheap, somewhere to put them isn't.

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Andy Dingley

I watched a 24" Delta/Crescent planer (huge) go for the cost of a brand new Lunch Box/Porty Planer. It was determined that the price paid was directly reflected by the lack of buyers with the ability to extract the machine from the premises (7' ceilings/no lift truck/no dock).

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Unisaw A100

early last year i watched a 700k CNC center with 200k worth of tooling go for

35000 the local woodworking company that bought it spent another 40k for the rigging and transport of it 7 miles away.

i appreciated the link to the yahoo group and have already joined, and regarding the cost of places to put equipment, pole buildings are pretty flexible and relatively inexpensive. i'm about five years out from retirement and planning my next career and have rat holed away the 36" tannewitz, a diehl

52, and an onsrud overarm pin router along with some smaller equipment and the building cost less than what i saved on machinery that will outlast me
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Madeuce50bmg

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