Do Warco tools often break?

[Midland]

Guillotining some thin brass and this happened, not pleased!!!

IMG_0131 by David Goyder, on Flickr

I should that my economy mill has done great service and put up with me. The only criticism is over the threaded rod that holds the head clamp in place dissolved into powder so I put some proper stuff in.
David

[gwr14xx]

Probably had too much clearance between the blades so it rolled the sheet over rather than shearing it! Also, the frame looks to be of poor, coarse grain iron - this, coupled with the wedging action of the attempted cut, probably caused the fracture.

Eddie.

[92220]

Hi David.

That is awful!! How old is it? That is definitely not of 'merchantable quality'. If it is under 6 years old you may well have redress under the Sale of Goods Act. Perhaps a word with your local Trading Standards might prove useful!

Bob.

[Midland]

Hi Eddie
The blades were tight against each other, the explanation of crap metal is true.
Will write one of those snail mail letters to WARCO.
On my mill there are two 10 mm (??) threaded rods that tighten the head to the post (I am sure there are technical terms for these). Having adjusted the height of the head, I tightened up the nuts on the rod. Imagine my surprise when the nut fell off and I had a handful of metallic powder, this was the cheapest of cheap china muck. Replaced them with proper steel rod and they work fine.
D

[Jo]

Jun 19, 2018 9:23:15 GMT Midland said:

this was the cheapest of cheap china muck

There is some real Chinese tripe out there, buying anything cheap and Chinese is always a lottery

Roger at Warco normally tries to get decent stuff and if he gets a bad batch won't deal with the factory again. (But that won't stop him selling off the ones cheap... the original Myford company were known to have done the same with some of their stuff - I was caught on their 2MT collets )

Jo

[kipford]

I bought a 12" formit from WARCO at the end of April. It is great apart from the fixed blade on the guillotine being bowed in the middle, which means it can only cut material about 20mm wide out from the sides before it gives up and bends instead of cutting. WARCO have been very good, no quibbles with it being at fault, they will collect and replace it with a new one. Only downside is they are out of stock at the moment, with the new stock waiting the slow boat from China. However I can still cut small bits of metal and use the bending and rolling functions, so it is not a huge problem.

Dave