Bad Seller

[irving2008]

Appreciate your frustration, but you could have saved yourself a lot of hassle with a phone call and a credit card deposit to guarantee the sale.

Email is a very unsafe way of doing business where you are potentially competing with others. Your email on Friday had no legal binding value - you could have rescinded it on Monday and they could have turned someone else away on Friday because you said you wanted it and lost a sale...

[fidia]

Appreciate your frustration, but you could have saved yourself a lot of hassle with a phone call and a credit card deposit to guarantee the sale.

Email is a very unsafe way of doing business where you are potentially competing with others. Your email on Friday had no legal binding value - you could have rescinded it on Monday and they could have turned someone else away on Friday because you said you wanted it and lost a sale...

I had rang on the Thursday to say that I wanted to purchase and rang monday morning at 9 and they said the machine had accidentally been sold eventhough they do not open until half 9 and do not open at the weekend

[i2i]

I have a 160 for sale if you're still after one.

[danielbriggs]

Can I ask which tool shop?
It wasn't G&M tools was it?

If so... I apologise... :whistling: *REALLY*!


...it arrived last week...

It turned out the Boxford 160 was the older BBC model, with the 37 pin, 1Mhz bus connector, Z80 chips and all that...

I've got all the bits I need on order, hopefully have them next week. Then will begin the conversion. I plan to do it in stages, while maintaining functionality.
At first will be the basics to get it talking to Mach 3 on X, Z, spindle and automatic tool changer; then I'll pop out the drivers and throw some new ones in. Then go back and tie up all the loose ends on the control pannel / coolant side of things...

Anyway, I'll be sure to make a new thread when I'm ready! :)

Ta,
Dan

[fidia]

Hi

Not to worry i2i has a 160 machine which I am going to buy so I think I am a ok. No need for apologies as you werent to know ha ha.

Just out of curiosity does the machine have coolant and was it working ok.

Cheers

Brian