I like building airplanes, so having a roller, shear, press brake would be super handy. I wanted something beefy and long, so I ordered a grizzly G0629 as it had some weight, I don't need German quality, and I figured it would be good enough.
I got the unit and the press brake is horribly machined. Some fingers (punch) are blunt, others are sharp, and they are different lengths to the tune of .020. The V-groove (die) is complete trash. It would probably take .010 to clean it up.
So, I call grizzly, they are easy enough to work with, but they don't have the parts in stock and want to mail me another unit, which I'm not expecting will be one lick better.
I found that Lindmark Machine in Seattle can machine the punch and die and make them nice for around $800, which if Grizzly comps me a few hundred, that brings the tool into the $2200 range, but I expect the press to be very decent at that price point.
Does that seam reasonable? I can just return it, but then what? It would be super nice to have the smaller footprint of the combo machine, and while I totally understand that separate $5k tools are better, I don't have that budget or space, and I'm only working with aluminum. Just trying to figure the best path forward....
Thanks
I got the unit and the press brake is horribly machined. Some fingers (punch) are blunt, others are sharp, and they are different lengths to the tune of .020. The V-groove (die) is complete trash. It would probably take .010 to clean it up.
So, I call grizzly, they are easy enough to work with, but they don't have the parts in stock and want to mail me another unit, which I'm not expecting will be one lick better.
I found that Lindmark Machine in Seattle can machine the punch and die and make them nice for around $800, which if Grizzly comps me a few hundred, that brings the tool into the $2200 range, but I expect the press to be very decent at that price point.
Does that seam reasonable? I can just return it, but then what? It would be super nice to have the smaller footprint of the combo machine, and while I totally understand that separate $5k tools are better, I don't have that budget or space, and I'm only working with aluminum. Just trying to figure the best path forward....
Thanks