Equitment Mistakes...

[KeepFraming]

As far as retun on investment what has been the best equitment investment you have made? What is the worst?

[artist]

Best- Seal t-500 drymount press: fillet chopper.
Worst - you need it all,if you can affoerd it.

[TADPORTER]

Best: Cassesse Underpinner(CS 88(manual))
Worst: Disk sander

[Jim Miller]

Best: Hot/cold vacuum press.
Miter-Mite Vn2+1 V-Nailer

Worst: Thumbnailer


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Jim Miller, CPFcm; GAFP Committee Member

[Susan May]

Best equiptment: Hot/cold vacume press (44x68)
Best investment: Classes/training, Decor Mag. and Picture Framing Mag.

Worst: ? (Good question, I'll think about it.)

Good O'l Sue

[frugalframer]

Best - Fletcher F-6100 Computerized Mat Cutter

Worst - Shrink Wrap Machine

[Skoogdaddy CPF]

Best investment : Cassese underpinner CS88 (got it for $700 from a craft store frame shop that folded in my area) ((BY FAR the best investment)) For the time and effort it saves I'd pay $5000 for one now. When we started out we thumbnailed everything--works fine if you got time to kill but when your volume increases it's way too s..l..o..w..

Worst: I agree with Artist, you can never have enough equipment. The more tools you have in your shop the better equipped you'll be to tackle most any frame job. Though I don't use it very often, that thumbnailer still comes in handy for profiles that just don't JIVE with the underpinner.

[Bob Carter]

Best return on equipment-Hands down, Wizard CMC
Best return on investment-Leases that give you an opportunity to grow
Worst equipment purchase-disc sander
Worst dissappointment-Tie:The service from Fullcalc and the return from FYA.com.So much promise, so little delivery

[Ruth Yheulon]

After there has been two replies with the disc sander being the worst, I hesitate to say that although it was expensive it has made every corner beautiful and was worth the money. It was one of our best purchases. There are a couple of different ones we bought the ITW manual disc sander. Since we order mostly chop we find we can clean up any corner.
Ruth
Snow, Snow and then some more Snow!!! It will be nice to have a White Christmas for a change!

[Lance E]

Best and worst in one breath, Alphamachine Minigraf 3 (underpinner), a fantastic machine but I should have gone up to a higher capacity machine.
Santa has been asked for a CMC.
http://www.thegrumble.com/framer/ubbs/biggrin.gif
I've been wanting to use that for ages http://www.thegrumble.com/framer/ubbs/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by Lance E (edited December 23, 2000).]

[JRB]

Lance,
What is an Alphamachine minigraph 3 ???
My best machine is
Wizard mat cutter
Cassise 810 underpinner
CTD 45 double cut off saw
My worst
Lion Miter trimmer
Baker Carlson Oval Mat Cutter ( Don't need it anymore thanks to Wizard )
John

[PAMELA DESIMONE,CPF]

I need all my equipment, but the one thing I could not do without is my hot/cold 44 x 66 press. The worst investment by far I have ever made is joining FYA.