Steve, every one of your posts lately sound like a broken record... Do you just cut and paste this crap ?
Yeah, great you have a machine.... must feel good to just sit and look at it between the hours of 11-2 because we all know that these are the hours you only work... I bet the ROI must be a killer at 30 grand or so and zero profit coming in to offset it...
I've known some real Machinist's in my life that have a shop full of CNC machines... One guy I know goes in, sets up the tools, changes cutters as needed, feeds new stock i nto the feeds, pushes the start buttons and picks up the bushels of parts that were cut the night before.
Then he turns out the lights and goes home to package the parts for sale. That's how it's done. If a machine stops,, it pages him.
Totally automated.
I had a small mill and lathe,, nothing fancy, but I found it cheaper and quicker to buy run of the mill parts than to make them myself.. it was more of novelty to have more than anything else... There are so many people out there cranking out copies of boat parts, plus all the China crap, it would be crazy to try to make most of our own parts.
Point is, if you intend to really sell stuff here, make some parts that work,, that people want,, at a decent price,, of good quality,, in stock,, and ship in a timely manner. Stay out i n the shop making parts.
Find someone to handle the books and selling side for you. This is how you conduct business.
Not by coming on a forum and endlessly complaining about the same thing over and over hoping to gain some sympathy for your bad business decisions. This is why you get ridden here and are not taken seriously.
No one cares that you have an expensive machine sitting idle in your shop.
With your attitude and past history, it's no wonder you have no customers.
