Thread: Hardinge CHNC Retrofit
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2 Weeks Ago #61
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2 Weeks Ago #63
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IMO it's mostly because of the greedy profiteering freight company's. But the official line I keep getting is that for Airfreight it's covid and difficulty at terminals. For Sea freight, it's a lack of ships due to them being delayed in EU and various parts of the world again blaming Covid. Container prices have gone up by 500% and 600% depending on were coming from. Typical container prices were $2000 now it's $10 -$12,000 with delays anywhere up to 4-6wks and that's on top of usual 8-10wks shipping times.!
No one is sending anything by sea freight at the moment because of the price, so all major shippers are sitting on the fence waiting for prices to drop after the Chinese new year, which will then cause a shortage of available space on the boats, which then, in turn, will keep the prices high IMO.!!
It's a nightmare getting parts at the moment.!-use common sense, if you lack it, there is no software to help that.
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2 Weeks Ago #65
Argh, not ideal. Suppose I can spend time getting the axis sorted and then hopefully get the turret stuff working.
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2 Weeks Ago #66
Air freight capacity is greatly reduced due to a lack of passenger flights. There are passenger planes flying solely for freight, and even Airbus designed a system for securing cargo in passenger seat.
Sea freight has experienced a bit of a perfect storm. People looking to replace air freight due to the increased prices there, increase in orders due to everybody being stuck at home, UK businesses trying to stockpile before Brexit kicked in, backlogs at ports, and just general delays has driven demand well above capacity, along with prices.
I'm guessing it's going to be at least another couple months before things return to more normal.Avoiding the rubbish customer service from AluminiumWarehouse since July '13.
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2 Weeks Ago #67
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2 Weeks Ago #68
One thing I might try is to use the old DC motor. I think its mean to be OK, there is a drive that I have which might belong to it (got 2 machines at the same time) but might try and power from an invertor and see, at worst I damage the drive which I wasnt going to use anyways. If it works, then it might be worth using and I can change it one day when I have 3 phase or a 220V Single Phase system.
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