Originally Posted by
Camelot
I have an Altendorf F45 with a 3.8M sliding bed cutting capacity, it cuts very accurately and I paid $2.5K for it.
I learned my trade back in the early 1980's and I was surrounded by the machines that I now look to buy, these old machines will make any piece of Furniture/Joinery I wish to make, I am not into mass production or looking for special electronic safety features, because I don't have any employees to protect or think about getting more production out of them.
If I was in my 20's with a 40 year career in front of me then maybe I would look at investing in new machines, but I'm not and I like the simple minimal electronics of the old machines, so I don't get any chance of a circuit board failure stopping me from using the rise & fall on my Altendorf.
So in short what I am looking to say is I could not justify paying $11K for that option.