Why Are Used Machines Usually For Sale?
It seems relatively easy to find used machines for sale, which initially might lead one to believe that the machine has a history of unhappy owners. This is perhaps true in some sense (see section on alignment!), however after talking to a few prospective sellers my conclusion is that these folks pretty much fall into one of three categories. • Someone who wishes to get into woodworking and has the money to spend on a new X31 decides (after watching Norm create yet another flawless project on the New Yankee Workshop) that woodworking would be a neat hobby. They quickly find out it’s not that easy, that planing wood for hours on end is not as much fun as Norm makes it appear, and decide to look for another hobby. • Camp two seems to be folks who are not very adept at properly aligning a machine. Since the Robland manuals are little help (more on that later), these folks give up as well and just want to cut their losses. • The third group is selling for a host of miscellaneous reasons. T
