Love this channel. I am still trying to find out what your business is exactly, LOL. Seriously, if you are about serving your customers probably the best way would be to do only the head and the tail, like D&E, sales and inspection/ shipping etc. but leave the actual manufacturing to specialists. I don't know about the supplier base in your neck of the woods but in Holland we have a lot of subcontractors doing good work for reasonable prices, really most often you can't do it yourself more competitively. The number of machines you have is staggering and I am frankly puzzled as to how that would make a viable business case tbh. But I love old machines just as much as the next guy. The Mazak Multiplex has a pretty unique layout, like the whole machine is mirrored about a center plane, never seen anything quite like it. Anyway, I have subscribed and will follow your progress. I work at a very interesting company in Holland, doing CAM programming and learning to operate the old Okumas. The company is specialized in machining especially of gears but we also have a foundry with 3D sand printing of molds which makes one off and small series of casting viable. Typically the products are of larger dimensions but it's not a rule. If you want to know more just let me know.
yeah, well done. we have an old cnc brake press machine at our shop, we turn it on in the morning sometimes it turns on and others not. so we just leave it until the next day and try again lmao. its an old machine so not really worth spending all the money getting it fixed, but when working as an awesome machine.
I used to have an old Beyeler single piston machine, RTS 1200x63 CNC Cybelec 7000 if I remember correctly. Still bummed out I sold it but it did not fit my new shop, it's very tall. It had some issues sometimes but overall it was a very good machine, very unique concept and super robust Swiss quality.
I really want one of those old multiplex i have a big repeat job that would be perfect for one. A bunch of them went super cheap at auction from a genie plant in Redmond. Still kicking myself for not picking one up. Not that we have room for one at the moment lol
Both of mine came from the Genie plant in Redmond, but they had been bought by another company that went under after that, and I bought it from them in Bellingham. We always have open machine time on them if you want to send some work this way.
Love this channel. I am still trying to find out what your business is exactly, LOL.
Seriously, if you are about serving your customers probably the best way would be to do only the head and the tail, like D&E, sales and inspection/ shipping etc. but leave the actual manufacturing to specialists. I don't know about the supplier base in your neck of the woods but in Holland we have a lot of subcontractors doing good work for reasonable prices, really most often you can't do it yourself more competitively. The number of machines you have is staggering and I am frankly puzzled as to how that would make a viable business case tbh. But I love old machines just as much as the next guy. The Mazak Multiplex has a pretty unique layout, like the whole machine is mirrored about a center plane, never seen anything quite like it.
Anyway, I have subscribed and will follow your progress. I work at a very interesting company in Holland, doing CAM programming and learning to operate the old Okumas. The company is specialized in machining especially of gears but we also have a foundry with 3D sand printing of molds which makes one off and small series of casting viable. Typically the products are of larger dimensions but it's not a rule. If you want to know more just let me know.
we are a parts manufacturer, but we also do all of our own repair work.
yeah, well done. we have an old cnc brake press machine at our shop, we turn it on in the morning sometimes it turns on and others not. so we just leave it until the next day and try again lmao. its an old machine so not really worth spending all the money getting it fixed, but when working as an awesome machine.
I used to have an old Beyeler single piston machine, RTS 1200x63 CNC Cybelec 7000 if I remember correctly. Still bummed out I sold it but it did not fit my new shop, it's very tall. It had some issues sometimes but overall it was a very good machine, very unique concept and super robust Swiss quality.
I really want one of those old multiplex i have a big repeat job that would be perfect for one. A bunch of them went super cheap at auction from a genie plant in Redmond. Still kicking myself for not picking one up. Not that we have room for one at the moment lol
Both of mine came from the Genie plant in Redmond, but they had been bought by another company that went under after that, and I bought it from them in Bellingham. We always have open machine time on them if you want to send some work this way.