RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Quandry

I don't know the vendor, but if I had was given so many reasons for
non-delivery I would be seriously doubting the vendors ability to deliver
anything. One calamity I sure would believe. Two and I would start getting
suspicious. Three and I would be looking to get out of the contract.

Maybe I am just being paranoid, but it is hard to believe that the same
company would have a tornado, a tree accident, business stalling rain, and
then a truck accident all on the same order.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> Group:
> This morning I got some bad news and it has put me in a bit of a
> quandary. As I mentioned in a post to Ballendo, I had ordered a
> MI4848 CNC
> router from Liberty Enterprises last June. I was promised 8 to 10 weeks
> delivery. After a few delays I was told a tornado ripped through town in
> the last week in June but the shop was spared. A number of trees in the
> area were damaged, however and this included one just outside the Liberty
> shop. The city hired a private contractor to remove the damaged
> trees and
> -- you guessed it! He dropped the tree on the shop and damaged
> some of the
> parts for my machine. Specifically, the hardened shafts for the gantry.
> The Owner, Charles told me he was going to redesign the machine for 2001
> anyway and that he would provide me with the newly restyled gantry using
> aluminum extrusions instead of shafts and bearings and that I
> should expect
> my machine by the first or second week in Sept.
> Rains, I was told, prevented the trucking company from picking up the
> machine until earlier this month but it (and a couple of others) were all
> shipped last week. Hooray! (I thought)
> This morning I called and asked if everything was OK and
> Charles told me
> he was going to call me. He had just returned from Louisville,
> KY where he
> was attempting to inspect the remains of all of the machines he had
> shipped. Seems the semi rolled over and the insurance co. won't
> let him or
> anyone else near them until the finish with their investigation - maybe
> Wednesday.
> I guess this means another 12 to 15 weeks since mine wasn't the only
> machine he was building.
> Now my quandary: Do I wait and hope to see my machine this
> year? Or do
> I try to find another? Or do I try to build my own from scratch? I have
> done some machine assembly in the past, but I do not have anything but
> woodworking machinery. I can't find another one as inexpensive with the
> same size and features as the Liberty and I am very satisfied with the
> software albeit not having had it tied into a machine. I am perfectly
> satisfied to pay him for the software and hope it is compatible with a
> future purchase of another mfgr.
> I did intend to build my own but NOT YET! But maybe providence is
> forcing my hand.
> So I turn to you, who have already built CNC Machines for guidance. I
> guess what scares me the most is reading all of your posts on the
> problems
> you have had or are having. Am I ready to take the plunge?
> Sorry for using up so much bandwidth. I guess I needed a
> place to vent
> my frustration and disappointment but I really do need advise.
>
> Hugh