[Jewelry making - Article 00867] - Re: [Orchid] CAD/CAM Milling Machines

[kevdan]

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    Hi Kevin I didnt want to offend any one, I am not afraid of
    technology I just think that people should be told the truth before
    they go out and spend 10000 bucks on somthing that may never pay for
    itself  I have an entire machine shop. I have all full size machines
    such as a Bridgeport verticle mill a kearney and trekor unversal
    horizontal a gorton 3d pantomill and tons of other related
    machinerey. I got this stuff from machine shops going bankrupt after
    they purchased the latest and greatest they would finance these new
    cnc machines and than have to keep them running twenty four seven
    just to make the payments to the bank. The competition for work
    becomes so fierce that it is a race for the bottom in Tucson I can
    get cnc work done at a shop for as little as thirty dollars an hour
    and they are using 100000 dollar machines at that rate you could
    barely make the payment to the bank and feed yourself. If you are
    going to buy one of these you need to have lots of work for it and
    it needs to be work that you could not carve by hand faster or this
    thing will never pay for itself. just my humble opinion 

    ps if you charge one hundred dollars to hand carve a wax. you would
    need to carve two hundred waxes with this machine to pay for it and
    pay yourself. I carve about three to four waxes per week it would
    take me several years to pay for this machine it will be obsolete in
    two or three and not worth 20 percent of what you paid for it. 

Kevin Potter


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