tuck
04-16-2011, 11:56 PM
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That's my dinosaur, folks. ^^^. Don't laugh! She's still making dust after all these years and with very few problems.
I'm the 2nd owner. I purchased it locally from a guy that bought it new from ShopBot in '96. He built the wooden table to ShopBot specs and after a year or so his wife insisted that he get it out of the garage so she could park her car, and I was in the right place at the right time. I paid $3,900.00 (included a computer and monitor) for it and it has paid for itself many times over with the sign work I've been able to do with it.
I upgraded to a new control box about 6 years ago for $750.00 and replaced the Porter Cable router with a Milwaukee shortly afterwards. The Porter Cable was fine but the Milwaukee is much quieter. Other than that, it's all original. Problems have been few and far between, those that I've had mostly due to lack of maintenance. And whenever I (rarely) needed help from ShopBot, they were there for me.
I drool over the newer Alphas and such. Quieter, faster, more capable and all that. But hey, for what I do, I'll stick with my '57 Chevy!:)
Bottom line,...you can't go wrong with a ShopBot in my experience.
Edit to say, I have managed to get along all this time without a vacuum table, spindle or zero plate. :-)
That's my dinosaur, folks. ^^^. Don't laugh! She's still making dust after all these years and with very few problems.
I'm the 2nd owner. I purchased it locally from a guy that bought it new from ShopBot in '96. He built the wooden table to ShopBot specs and after a year or so his wife insisted that he get it out of the garage so she could park her car, and I was in the right place at the right time. I paid $3,900.00 (included a computer and monitor) for it and it has paid for itself many times over with the sign work I've been able to do with it.
I upgraded to a new control box about 6 years ago for $750.00 and replaced the Porter Cable router with a Milwaukee shortly afterwards. The Porter Cable was fine but the Milwaukee is much quieter. Other than that, it's all original. Problems have been few and far between, those that I've had mostly due to lack of maintenance. And whenever I (rarely) needed help from ShopBot, they were there for me.
I drool over the newer Alphas and such. Quieter, faster, more capable and all that. But hey, for what I do, I'll stick with my '57 Chevy!:)
Bottom line,...you can't go wrong with a ShopBot in my experience.
Edit to say, I have managed to get along all this time without a vacuum table, spindle or zero plate. :-)