New in Portland Oregon

[LewisMachinery]

Ok Joe!

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

[Kerry Pinkerton]

You mean like an Erco Flanger?

[LewisMachinery]

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

[Kerry Pinkerton]

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.

[Nate Lagler]

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.

[LewisMachinery]

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.

[Kerry Pinkerton]

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.

[Custom Metalshapers Ltd]

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

cheers
tony

[LewisMachinery]

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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[David Gardiner]

Originally Posted by Kerry Pinkerton

They are neat tools but you'd almost need to be in a production shop making repetitive panels to justify one given the cost.

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