New in Portland Oregon
 

Hello to all,

I own a use machinery company in Portland, Lewis Machinery. I love finding cool machines and tools and thats all I do. It's fun to go into all the shops and see what can be made with tools and machines. Dan

Hi Dan and welcome to the site!.

David

Hi Dan and welcome!:)

Welcome to the site Dan
Peter

Thanks!!

I hope you guys don't mind having a guy around that makes his living selling used shop machines? Really enjoy what i do and it's fun to work with all of them. I just bought out another shop and I'm having problems finding pricing on a Yoder, kick shrinker, and flanging machine, and Help???

Thanks Dan

Dan in Portland
 

Welcome to this great site Dan, and as for your machines, nah, they're not worth much, just package em up and freight forward them down under to me.......:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:: lol::lol::lol:

I don't know about that Yoder looks kind of heavy!! LOL
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Looks fantastic! what sort of money is a thing like that worth? and what about the kick shrinker?.

David

I can't really help you with the pricing but I am in the market for a mill. where is your business located if you don't mind my asking? I live in Walla Walla.

Dan, Welcome to the site. Please read the rules of the site. This site is for sheet metal shaping only.

If members are interested in some tool that you have they should contact you about that through email, PM or some other means and not post on the forum. I sent you a PM.

Ok Joe!

I have a ?, Have you guys ever used or see a flanging machine?

You mean like an Erco Flanger?

I think it is. I will go to the shop today and check on the model.

As far as putting a value on the Yoder, I'd suggest you contact Fay Butler. He is the intergalatic hammer wizard. Tooling will make a difference as well as the history of the machine. People pay extra for 'Jesse James' power hammer, Eckold, etc.

Regarding the value of the Marchant, Neil Dunder (Sales@gogitzit.com) is your man. It's worth more with shrinking rather than stretching dies. It seems like very quality kick shrinker that comes up has stretching dies only and you have to lay out a grand for the shrinking dies on top of the shrinker itself.

I talked to a guy in Ca last month that has several Erco Flangers, one brand new still in cosmoline with tooling. He wanted some serious money. the ad is in the classifieds. They are neat tools but you'd almost need to be in a production shop making repetitive panels to justify one given the cost. I can think of many tools on my bucket list I'd buy before I'd make space for one.

Just throw the hammer on eBay, you'll get $35k I would assume. I would have paid you that a year ago before I built mine. I'd give you $7500 for the flanger. Probably could just put that on eBay too and see what happens.

Thanks for the help. It's always hard to sell a machine that I would like to keep, but guys can make a living from these tools and that makes more sense then me hoarding machines like I used to do! The S/S comes with both sets of dies, I think there is a set for each machine, also two hand held air operated units, never seen them before. Also got about 4 planishing hammer head units, the guy must have been collecting a while.

The hand held units aren't worth that much. I've seen a couple of them at the SunNFun fly in flymart for $100 each. They aren't very adjustable to my knowledge and you adjust air pressure to determine the shrink.

shop gear
 

Hi Dan, please keep us in the loop regarding disposal. I have sent you a PM.

cheers
tony

I will post pictures of the air units, here is the ERCO flanger and planishing hammers. I think this is a adjustable panel station for holding panels while they are worked on. Also ERCO S/S,

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Kerry, this is pretty much what I feel when I look at the prices of most of the machines above. When I take into account the cost of the floorspace they take up as well...

(not so much of an issue in the US I know)

David