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Cutting CD Covers in Bulk?

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ericheartsu:
I also look everyday on Craigslist. For the most part you can find cheaper ones at auctions, or in the north western part of the country. But they are always always always a huge problem moving them as they are SUPER heavy.

Inkworks:
I drove 250 miles to pick up a flatstock drying rack I bought off of Craigslist for a smoking deal, while there the shop owner asked if I wanted the old manual 24" Challenger guillotine he had sitting there for free. Hell yes I did. It took some doing to get both into my 4 x 6' 55 year old utility trailer, the rack was strapped in sticking out the back and the load was quite unbalanced with the ridiculously top heavy guillotine off to one side in the front, so much so that on any left hand curve the trailer wheel would rub and smoke. I finally stopped and threw in some big rocks on the other side to level things out. The kicker is the highway I took is famous for being probably the worst mountain pass in Canada, they even have a television series about it, Highway through Hell

I love that old cutter, once I put in a new anvil cutting strip and had the blade sharpened it's as good as new, plus it's a great looking vintage piece of equipment. It looks just like this one:

StuJohnston:
That's pretty much how I got my heidelberg diecutting/foil press. I went to pick up my paper cutter and he had it in the shop and kept talking to me about taking it, asking me how much I would pay for it and stuff. I told him that the cutter was about the amount of extra cash I had on hand so I couldn't buy it. Along the way, we discovered a large pallet of paper that we bought for nearly free. After we got the cutter and the paper on the trailer, we were pretty much at capacity. So when the guy started to hint that we could just haul it away so he would be rid of it, I had to say no unfortunately.

The next day, we decided to see if the offer was still good. He wanted scrap value, while that was certainly more cost than free, it was still a hell of a deal.

GaryG:
Talk about steal deals- (paper cutter at end) we were faxed a list of a shop's equipment a few years ago,
and it was a complete small shop. The mega sign shop decided not to print tees anymore.
"Just want to get rid of it all"

We went over and as a test offered $500. He said he couldn't do that but how about $1000?

Ok for a thousand!
All virtually brand new~
Harco 4/4 manual
Harco 8' dryer
Drying rack 36X48/50 levels (try putting one of those back together again :o)
One arm 4' squeegee system
6' Wash out tank- only thing we really needed, but couldn't pass this up.  ;D
Many inks/squeeges/extras

There was so much, driving away, with a trailer spilling over the edges, my wife says: "Did we get that paper cutter?"
Oh, crap, no! Back to get the cutter and wedge it among the ultimate haul!
(Kind of like the one above, but more simple)

***Did use a Challenge cutter years ago - very nice but used if you can if  not cutting regularly.
A manual cutter could propose problems with tight tolerances.

StuJohnston:
Oh yeah, I should say, as was mentioned, if someone approached me with a stack of sheets to cut and 10-20 bones (depending on how good a buddy it is) I would definitely cut them.

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