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Valuating a lathe and end mill?

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pmandryk

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Our MakerLab has recently purchased a lathe and an end mill. How do you get the valuation of these items if we needed it for insurance purposes?
 
pmandryk said:
Our MakerLab has recently purchased a lathe and an end mill. How do you get the valuation of these items if we needed it for insurance purposes?
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By end mill I am assuming you mean a milling machine? As Tom suggested above purchase price would be a good starting point, other than that you could use the classified/kijiji listing of similar machines for current market prices.
 
Using the purchase price was what we thought too. The insurance is fine with this but asked to get a replacement price as well.
 
pmandryk said:
Using the purchase price was what we thought too. The insurance is fine with this but asked to get a replacement price as well.
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I had to do that for all my farm equipment, tools, and machinery too. I gave them purchase price, current market cost estimate, and what it would cost to buy new. When I look at my detailed policy, I see that they used the current market price to set my premiums, which is ok by me. I gather they do have policy varients that replace with new.

My market cost estimates were just guesses. If it ever gets to the point I need better than that, I'm sure the insurance and I will have a good argument no matter what number I gave them.
 
Just to throw out a fun fact, the price of a new Taiwan made Bridgeport clone mill essentially doubled within about 1.5 year span for a large tool importer based in Calgary. So new vs replacement cost was a healthy spread depending on relative timing. What all factored into this I cant say. Things were kind of volatile through pandemic, FX, supply/demand... Now they carry Chinese/Taiwan hybrids on the floor, although you can still order whatever you want as long as you sign the cheque beforehand.
 
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