About to take the plunge

[ChrisJ]

Hi Neale.

Thanks very much for those comments. I'll look into the cost of upgrading the order to a 2.2kW spindle for the reasons you mention. It didn't occur to me that the 1.5kW and 2.2kW spindles would have a different capacity but the added flexibility could be very handy.

From what I've read, it seems to be a good idea to ask the seller to ship FOB and, as your friend did, get a UK shipping agent to handle the paperwork, duty, VAT and delivery at this end. I've looked at shippo.co.uk and the price looks ok but I'll get some more quotes to compare. There are a few horror stories of people getting stung with additional import-related costs that weren't apparent at the outset when the seller shipped via CIF/CFR rather than FOB terms. Incidentally, there's a lot of useful info on the Shippo website relating to importing from China - well worth checking out if that's relevant to anyone.

Re the set-up issues - forewarned is forearmed, thanks. Hopefully with some research and a bit of guidance I'll muddle through. I'd heard that AccTek offer pretty decent technical support and it seems likely I'll be in a position to comment on that in due course, given that I'm new to all this.

Hmm... that's an interesting bit of improvisation when the tap for the home switch trigger snapped off! I'm really hoping that there won't be too much of that 'Friday afternoon' attention to detail. I'll be having a very close look and will report back in due course. If the machine is well put together and works well then I'll be singing AccTek's praises, but similarly I'll also highlight any problems if I find any.

Cheers,

Chris

[Lee Roberts]

Hi Chris, welcome to the forum.

As Neale said, not seen any Acctek conversation come up before, would be intresting to see how you get on, what you get and some shots of the machine on those friday afternoon's ;-).

Good Luck!