Ebay Chinese Routers (CNC3040) - anyone purchased one of these machines recently?

[modcube]

I've recently bought this one:

http://www.ebay.es/itm/230685740094?...84.m1497.l2649

I asked the buyer for the item location, and he answered this:

dear friend
please do not worry ,we have this item in UK warehouse ,i have shipped theitem from UK warehouse already
and i will send you the trackingnumber later ,then you will beliive we ship theitem from UK warehouse

I hope he is not lying...

[camhguh]

I've recently bought this one:

http://www.ebay.es/itm/230685740094?...84.m1497.l2649

I asked the buyer for the item location, and he answered this:



I hope he is not lying...

LOL, We have just ordered the exact same unit (ebay uk) but not had any response from the seller yet....i doubt tho that it would cost nearly another £300 or so to deliver from Portsmouth to Nottingham!

[JAZZCNC]

I've recently bought this one:

http://www.ebay.es/itm/230685740094?...84.m1497.l2649

I asked the buyer for the item location, and he answered this:



I hope he is not lying...

1 POST.!!!. . . . .Sniff sniff sniff. . . . . Erm Cod.. .:rofl:

[Swarfing]

The other reason for the high postage is to so that the do not have to pay Ebay loads of money on the sale price of the kit. Makes sense but does confuse a bit but that is why it looks so cheap.

[luke11cnc]

yes I believe ebay doesn't get a penny from you for postage charges and I think it's the same for paypal.

But for £300.00 I would collect it my self

James

[camhguh]

Well..its arrived! :) Our chinese 4030 cnc machine....no tracking number...no email communication...but delivered this morning. It was very well packaged and looked as if it needed to be! I assumed it started out box shaped but there were no edges visible on delivery! I rolled it from my front door thro to my kitchen where it will live for a while!

Everything survived intact, no damage and the spindle works fine, quieter than i thought it would be although it might sound a lot louder when actually milling some material. Now just need to cobble together a working pc with xp to run mach3.....to be continued!

[modcube]

Mine has arrived too, all perfect, extremely well packaged. Tomorrow I'll try to install emc2 to check if it's working ok.

[camhguh]

Mine has arrived too, all perfect, extremely well packaged. Tomorrow I'll try to install emc2 to check if it's working ok.

The tracking number arrived in my email this morning...the machine was delivered yesterday lol

Not used it in anger yet...getting our heads round mach3 etc...should be able to give it a run tomorrow for real!

[camhguh]

Well...guess what...we have a problem...after around four or five hours intermittent use the z axis is misbehaving....when i jog down it goes up and when i jog up it goes down...hehe not... bloody Chinese gremlins!!!

The odd thing is that we can move the gantry to a certain position on the bed and it works fine but within a limited area. Because we need the parts urgently we are running it for the moment in this manner but its a pita!

I think because it works ok in one area of the machine that the problem is most likely to be with the wiring and not the driver boards...at least im hoping so..because any issue with the wiring would be a lot easier to resolve!

Forgot to mention that we are using Mach3

Anyone come across a similar problem?

[modcube]

The spindle has dead, it started to smell really bad and after that (2h of non continuous use) it stopped working, one coil is burnt.