Short version: I bought an Emco V13 lathe in august, it was transported by "Road Runner Transportation Services" who as part of the delivery ran a forklift into it, basically totaling it. They've dragged things out for months. Their latest offer is that they will pay me $140. Given that the lathe cost $2600 and shipping was around $700 this is disgusting.
There's no abiguity: they fucked up, destroyed a good quality piece of equipment and are too dishonest to do the right thing. I'm going to have to sue them to straighten this out, which is a big waste of time.
I'd recommend avoiding them at all cost.
Here's some photos of the damage when it was delivered.
In the shrink wrap, speed knob, crosslide knob, plexiglass and lateral wheel broken:
Cross slide knob and the broken lateral wheel in the shrink wrap, indicating it occured after packing:
Fresh break: no oil:
You can see where it was rammed: the skirt is bent in, and the two parallel lines give the fingerprint of the object (forklift or was it in a van perhaps and hit the corner of something multiple times?):
Another view:
You can see the pallet is cracked too, giving a rough idea of the scope of the impact:
Broken plexiglass, bent rod holding it:
Unwrapped view:
Closer of the cross slide --- a very disturbing thing is that the knob was impacted so heavily that it dented the covering. This could be very bad: this controlls movement of the cross slide to the .001" of an inch --- hitting it very hard could easily ruin the mechanism:
This is the known most serious damage: the rod that drives threading has been severely bent. It's harder to see in photo than in real life, but I drew a line of the top and then turned it by hand, the gap gives a feel for the bend:
Top:
Rotated to low point:
I don't know if this can be replaced. As far as I know they don't make this lathe anymore, and the last known US distributor for emco parts does not have this model listed (I've sent email).
Here's the rod used to turn power on and off. It's been helpfully ripped from
the housing and the special switch used to control it destroyed:
Other things not pictured: the collet chuck and assembly were lost as was the
key to the lathe's storage compartment.
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