Is a Ivoclar EP600 press of any value?

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Hi, first time poster on here. I love picking your brains by reading the posts here on DLN! This is great for me as I am a one man lab working out of my house and not very close to any other labs or technicians.

I Have a EP600 that was in perfect working order until the power company did some outside work and surged my mother board about four years ago so since then I have obviously replaced the press with a EP3010. I have that damaged press sitting around collecting dust now and everytime I think of getting rid of it (dump it) I have reservations whether or not there may be some value either in parts, refining or is it worthwhile to repair and re-sell it? Or would have any value anybody else who might need a press?

Thanks in advance for any advice or opinions that you might want to share with me.

Don.
 
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Tried posting a picture, no luck.
 
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Hi, first time poster on here. I love picking your brains by reading the posts here on DLN! This is great for me as I am a one man lab working out of my house and not very close to any other labs or technicians.

I Have a EP600 that was in perfect working order until the power company did some outside work and surged my mother board about four years ago so since then I have obviously replaced the press with a EP3010. I have that damaged press sitting around collecting dust now and everytime I think of getting rid of it (dump it) I have reservations whether or not there may be some value either in parts, refining or is it worthwhile to repair and re-sell it? Or would have any value anybody else who might need a press?

Thanks in advance for any advice or opinions that you might want to share with me.

Don.
Greetings Earthling! Welcome!

Thanks for picking up the keyboard!

If you can get a motherboard for it still, see how much it costs to get it replaced. Then just try to sell it with that information. If you are not going to keep it as a backup, I wouldn't fix it just to sell it. Unless you are competent at component level circuit board repairs. Which are not as scary as they sound. Many of our toys have tiny grain of rice size fuses soldered onto the board to protect the more expensive chips.

When was the last time you tried it? If it was only a few minutes after the power people gave you some fun, try it again. Self Resetting fuses of older versions were weird beasts.
 
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I haven't tried it, good to know, thanks. I have not even had it plugged in so I will give it a go.
 
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Tried posting a picture, no luck.
You might need more posts in order to post pictures?
Travis had to crack down on the newbie picture posting because certain members, myself included, kept posting midget porn.
It probably has value for parts, I'm not sure if Ivoclar supports those machines any more?
 
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I have an EP600 ,had it for about 15 yrs. Started getting temp errors and replaced the muffle (under $200 if I remember) . Still was getting the errors . After talking with the tech guys @ Ivoclar they said try the mother board . So I ordered one (over a $1000 this time) and fitted it ,pretty easy to do , it's been perfect since then . I see them on Ebay for anywhere from $1500 to $5000 but I don't think they sell very well. I would only fix it if you planned using it .
 
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You might need more posts in order to post pictures?
Travis had to crack down on the newbie picture posting because certain members, myself included, kept posting midget porn.
It probably has value for parts, I'm not sure if Ivoclar supports those machines any more?
LOL...well that makes sense. :bag:
 
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Greetings Earthling! Welcome!

Thanks for picking up the keyboard!

If you can get a motherboard for it still, see how much it costs to get it replaced. Then just try to sell it with that information. If you are not going to keep it as a backup, I wouldn't fix it just to sell it. Unless you are competent at component level circuit board repairs. Which are not as scary as they sound. Many of our toys have tiny grain of rice size fuses soldered onto the board to protect the more expensive chips.

When was the last time you tried it? If it was only a few minutes after the power people gave you some fun, try it again. Self Resetting fuses of older versions were weird beasts.


Well that saved me some $$$!

When my press blew I was in the middle of selling a lab, moving two hours away and starting a new, smaller home based lab as well as just having had open heart surgery. I changed the fuses back then and still zero power/response so I ordered a new press as dealing with it at that time wasn't in the cards.

So I changed all three fuses on the back panel again (one of them did seem blown) and sure enough it fired up, thank you JMN!

I still need to hook it up to a vacuum pump, calibrate it and try a pressing but I am pretty sure it should all work just fine.

I should have tried this sooner but too much was going on, glad that I didn't toss it.
 
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Well that saved me some $$$!

When my press blew I was in the middle of selling a lab, moving two hours away and starting a new, smaller home based lab as well as just having had open heart surgery. I changed the fuses back then and still zero power/response so I ordered a new press as dealing with it at that time wasn't in the cards.

So I changed all three fuses on the back panel again (one of them did seem blown) and sure enough it fired up, thank you JMN!

I still need to hook it up to a vacuum pump, calibrate it and try a pressing but I am pretty sure it should all work just fine.

I should have tried this sooner but too much was going on, glad that I didn't toss it.
Ah ! good news :) ,,,,, Those fuses get so hot in the back there ,they weld themselves in over time . Good you were able to get them out without needing new fuse holders .
 
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Well that saved me some $$$!

When my press blew I was in the middle of selling a lab, moving two hours away and starting a new, smaller home based lab as well as just having had open heart surgery. I changed the fuses back then and still zero power/response so I ordered a new press as dealing with it at that time wasn't in the cards.

So I changed all three fuses on the back panel again (one of them did seem blown) and sure enough it fired up, thank you JMN!

I still need to hook it up to a vacuum pump, calibrate it and try a pressing but I am pretty sure it should all work just fine.

I should have tried this sooner but too much was going on, glad that I didn't toss it.
For being such a simple device, fuses can generate a myriad mishmash of confusing connundrums. First place I go when something starts acting unusualy odd. They can blow incompletely, generating errors in logic and other voltage level sensitive circuits.
 
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