[Jewelry making - Article 00073] - Re: [Orchid] [4Sale] Sanders MM Pro6 machine

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>        For Sale- Sanders MM Pro6 machine, replacement parts and
>     materials $6000 or best offer. Loyola Marymount University in Los
>     Angeles where I teach is up grading the lab. To see parts made on
>     the machine check out my website 

    I bought one last fall on ebay (for a bit less, but it needed new
    jets and a few other things)  shortly thereafter, along with it
    becoming apparent that it needed more than a few trivial parts, I
    found a notice on the Soldscape web site (current name of the company
    servicing these and supplying parts), that they were, as of about
    right now, discontinuing service and parts availability for the MM6
    Pro.  Since these parts are not interchangeable, so far as I could
    determine, with the later models, I took the first offer I could get
    to sell the thing before I got stuck with a white elephant.  Others,
    since, have offered the opinion that perhaps Solidscape would still
    offer parts, even if not service contracts, though I couldn't get
    them to admit that, and they pointed out that manufacturing had
    stopped or would stop for a number of the custom parts, like the
    computer control boards, among other things.   But given the need to
    replace certain parts (the jets in particular) on a regular basis, 
    it seemed to me that this was quite a risk to take.   Does anyone
    know whether this situation has changed?  If indeed parts would
    reliably continue to be available for the MM6 Pro, then I'd be very
    interested again.  As is, I have the suspicion that most of the buyers
    of these things are folks wishing to buy them as a supply of spare
    parts, so they can keep their existing machines running... 

Peter Rowe


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