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Tool and cutter grinder, Elite AR5E, 550 volt $950

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Very interesting machine, 1500lbs a bit heavy for me, the location wasn't clear but Cowan machinery is based in Richmond hill but on the website it showed some stuff at different locations but not this particular item.

Astra Elite AR5-E Tool & Cutter Grinder

Machine Tool Archive, lathes.co.uk, Tony Griffiths
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FYI. Cowan ripped me off, sold me a Roper Whitney #20 punch he swore was in good condition. I took a chance, paid for it, had it shipped to Vancouver. Turns out the frame had been snapped in half and welded back together crooked. (Lord only knows how it’s possible to break one, took a special kind of idiot)

No response when I complained.
 
whydontu said:
FYI. Cowan ripped me off, sold me a Roper Whitney #20 punch he swore was in good condition. I took a chance, paid for it, had it shipped to Vancouver. Turns out the frame had been snapped in half and welded back together crooked. (Lord only knows how it’s possible to break one, took a special kind of idiot)

No response when I complained.
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I have emailed with them a few times about tooling and never got a good feeling about dealing with them. I almost bought a rotary table from them but i backed out at the last minute. Glad I did.

Did you fix the Roper Whitney punch?
 
dfloen said:
I have emailed with them a few times about tooling and never got a good feeling about dealing with them. I almost bought a rotary table from them but i backed out at the last minute. Glad I did.

Did you fix the Roper Whitney punch?
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Nope, didn’t think it was worth spending any time bodging an already-bodged tool. The frame was so screwed up there was no way to get it solid enough to work. The arbor was OK, so I ended up giving it to a fellow metalworker who had a #20 frame with no arbor. Bought a new Roper Whitney #12 from Trick Tools, never looked back.
 
This may be the firm - there is some weirdness where the guy lives in RH but everything is in warehouse out east (Ontario) somewhere? You never get to see it or go by for it because it has to dug out of a distant warehouse. Never got any comfort there.

Plus, how can have faith in someone who can't figure how to rotate a photo? Anyone find that just so annoying to try and look at...even with your head cocked half sideways? :D
 
Is this the guy that has the warehouse in Colbourne? I think I talked with him a few years ago about a lathe and got the complete run around about it. I got the impresison that he has no idea about any of the stuff he has, and it's 100% on you to verify any information. If you get a chance to even view it, or see it before purchase.
 
sounds like the same one. I have no facts to suggest this, but my thought was it could be 2nd generation trying to muddle through without having much of a clue. Perhaps not so much malice as just not knowing what stuff is or what good condition is; nevertheless the result can be the same
 
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