Roll Pipe Bender - Another MUST HAVE?

[Joe Jones]

Man ... I just cannot imagine my shop without this handy machine. One more day to decide ....

Do I need it right now? NO. Will it cost more after the Chinese tariffs are imposed in 2025? YES.

Joe

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[Joe Jones]

I guess I have no choice. If I wait, it will cost me more. Also, I have been approved for "easy financing," which means I can delay paying it off until after mid-January when I can simply pay cash for it. This is one of those gotta have it tools that any metal shop can certainly use.

I am also looking at the WAZER PRO water jet cutter. However, it is not on sale now, and so there is no incentive to buy it at this time.

Hey! I can put this in my bedroom, next to the 3D printer!

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Joe

http://www.grizzly.com/products/wazer-p ... 0hz/t34332

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[abmetal]

DANG, JOE! I'm beginning to think maybe I should move down there closer to you!

Allen

[Joe Jones]

Sadly, I have decided to postpone the purchase of BOTH of these machines. The WAZER is at the regular price, so that should not change, and the roll bender is a good deal from GRIZZLY TOOLS, but I have found another one at an online auction at 20% of that price. Unfortunately, the GRIZZLY sale price ends today, so I may miss out. However, there will be other sales, and quite honestly, I have enough to keep me busy with what is already here.

I will end the year on a quiet note, and move into 2025 with the hopes of adding these two machines, and possibly a nice fiber laser to the bunch, just to round things out.

I am currently printing a large box and lid as a test of the printer's ability to run unattended for 36 hours or so. Thus far, the box is printed (31 hours ) and now it is working on the lid.

I have not figured out where I went wrong. It is DRAWN to be 200mm x 200mm, but it falls short 2.5mm in each dimension, and also a tad short of the 34mm height too. I don't recall scaling it in the Makerbot app, but maybe I did

Joe

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Currently $1,350.00 at auction!

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[Joe Jones]

DANG, JOE! I'm beginning to think maybe I should move down there closer to you!

Allen

I really wish someone lived close by, who just wanted to hang out, work with the machines, see what kind of trouble we could get into, and maybe ... just MAYBE figure out how to design and build the next mega-million dollar widget that the Sharks would JUMP on!

I have no problem paying GOOD WAGES to helpers, IF the things they are helping me make, are selling and bringing in money. When I was making the metal art pre-covid zombie apocalypse, I was churning out 150 to 200 pieces per week, and feeding eight 10'x10' vendor booths. My "associates" were using my Microsoft Surface PRO tablet PC and my software to draw the pieces, but I was cutting and producing them. I paid for the shop buildings, and the machines, and the materials, and the tools, and EVERYTHING. I paid the booth rentals, and the sales tax too. I was doing it for the FUN! I didn't care if I was making a profit.

Even so, I would make the metal, and sell it, and give my "associates" 50% of the retail sales price, JUST for drawing vector files (files that I COULD draw myself except for time,) and taking the metal out to the booths to hang them on pegs with price tags. I also gave them space to hang their own products in MY booths to sell, without paying any booth rent or other expenses, and they kept 100% of THEIR sales. I can't be any more fair than that!

Sadly, GREED reared its ugly head, the arrangement crumbled, and then the 2020 "FEAR THE AIR!" campaign went into overdrive. I shut everything down, and I haven't made anything since that time. I work with DesignEdge software. I do online training for FREE. I have added many machines to my shops. Now I am trying to get motivated again.

Joe



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[Joe Jones]

I changed my mind and just ordered the GRIZZLY roll bender. I was going to wait until after January 15th, but two weeks really doesn't make much difference, AND I would lose the $570.00 discount, and probably pay an additional TARIFF on the machine as well. So, the order is in, and it will be processed soon.

The WAZER will have to wait though.

Joe

[Dirtmotor]

There is going to be one heck of an auction when your gone !

[acourtjester]

For your printer scale problem they also need axis calibrations too.
Same setup print test boxes and calculate the corrections and enter it in the software.