Strike CNC (My first CNC router)

[Jonathan]

Latest state of play is that it's now become an expensive table.

I thought it was an expensive machine to start with, let alone after you've fixed all the 'features'.[/QUOTE]

Bearings have fallen apart on the x axis, obviously it's my fault!! Well that's what Mike says.

Have you taken the bearings out of the mounts? If so you should check if they are standard deep groove bearings (e.g. 6201) or the right type, which is a pair of angular contact bearings (e.g. 7201). Earlier in the thread it became apparent that they used the wrong type of bearings, which is unbelievable as it's such a basic easy thing to find out and not even expensive to do right. If you did take him to court then I think this is a good example of supplying a part which is not fit for purpose, since because they do not tolerate significant axial forces, deep groove bearings would last a few months at best before failure. This is common knowledge. Similarly there are numerous basic design flaws or examples of mismatched components, which could help the court case if listed?

Perhaps I should send him an Invoice for the loss of earnings from not being able to use the machine.

I had a tour round quite a big factory recently and they said their contracts with some of their suppliers state that they can charge something like £60k per hour if the supplier fails to deliver and stops the production line!

As far as I'm concerned, the company is dead

The problem is it's so easy for him to put claims on his website such as 'it is a very rigid CNC' router, when to anyone who has read about it, it's clearly not. On the plus side their website is so terrible (no images, all text) that this thread is the first result on google if you search the company name, so hopefully that will change things.