Re: Another treasure spotted at Boeing Surplus...

Anne,

a)Nope, what's left is a very saleable precision slide assembly.

b)No, we would have unbolted it ourselves. I know better than to
expect anyone there to do any unbolting. It's not a liability issue
either, they let people disassemble large machines for hauling all
the time. They even let customers bring power saws in to cut pieces
of metal.

Doug

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Anne Ogborn <anniepoo@n...> wrote:
>
> > << In Boeing's usual fashion they rejected my
> > friend's offer of $150 for only the rotary table ("We can't
separate
> > items!!"). >>
> > Policy surely originated with ex-government folks!
> >
>
> Strangely I'm on Boing's side in this.
>
> If you just take the rotary table you
>
> a) leave them with a big hunk of scrap iron, on the assumption that
> if all you want is the small piece, then the big piece is scrap.
>
> b) this means somebody has to unbolt the thing.
>
> It just sounds like one of those jobs that starts out taking 5
minutes,
> ends up consuming an hour of employee time.