Thread: Wonderful 15 year old AWW magazines....and a question!

A lot of what industry uses is three phase and the used market is very limited so it gets scrapped. Other stuff has no application in a hobby situation so the same deal, on the truck and scrapped. The manufacturing base in this country in the WW sector has fallen to just about nil so that limits the used market also.

A lot is also bought up by agents and then sent overseas.

Originally Posted by Evanism

.... Do woodworkers just hold onto it all and never sell it? ....

How much of your unused items have you sold?

Christos, I scrapped a thicknesser recently, does that count?

About a decade ago one of the small workshops where I used to work was downsizing and tried to dispose of a about a dozen, small, 3 phase WW & MW machines from circa 1960/70s. The list, which include, 2 bandsaws, 16" RAS, 12" combo machine, 2HP DC, a cold cutting saw, a couple of different long belt sanders, and a Hercus MW lathe, went to public tender and the best quote they got was $1000 for the lot. While some were no doubt in poor shape, the usual card of - we can't sell 3 phase machines was loudly played by the tenderers. Instead of disposing of them the management at work decided to temporarily put the machines into storage. A decade later a bean counter uncovered that the storage cost of the machines was WAY greater than their value and now they were all rusty and some of them were damaged, they were going to have to pay to have them taken away so they just wanted them out of there ASAP. Anyway the long long and the short of it was I ended up getting some of these (some pics here) for a next to nothing. So far all I have done something with is the Hercus lathe which is now happily working in my shed, the rest that I managed to get hold of are at the milling yard awaiting some improvement in my health to get back to fixing them up.