Hi has anyone changed there tube on the glowforge if so what kind of cost is it in the uk
lots of talk, the âstreetâ price on a tube is $250
but for $500 Glowforge, inc will replace it, and thatâs with SHIPPING
best bang per pew!
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Except I donât think that offer is good for the UK or international. Iâm sure it has come up before but canât remember.
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It is a sharing of cost but like all international +Alasksa and Hawaii, I donât think there is that much sharing. On the other hand, I have not heard of any confirmed case of a dead tube, other than something like being broken during shipment. There are certainly machines that have seen fairly heavy use for four years with the tubes going strong far beyond the promised two-year life.
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GF uses a bespoke tube, street price doesnât apply.
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I thought they used a generic part, on the tube, that the power supply was their most proprietary part.
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Nope, tube is custom to GF.
what I was basing my price on. .
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That smells of âfell off the back of a truckâ.
Theyâve always told us itâs a custom part.
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Interesting, That seller also has a surplus of glass lidsâŚ
And they ship out of southern TX - isnât that roughly near the GF assembly plant?
Seem to recall somewhere around there but thought they moved to Mexico, maybe they operate out of both? If you look at the lids they show a box with a GF part number on them and a few areas of the label blacked out. So they are not getting them from used machinesâŚ
Interesting, Hidalgo is right on the border.
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Glowforges were previously assembled and repaired by Cynergy in Grapevine, TX. They still advertise GF as a customer. Much consumer electronics is not actually manufactured by the brand on the box.
I believe GF moved to a similar vendor with operations in TN but I donât know for sure.
This seller likely picked up surplus inventory left over when GF terminated its relationship with Cynergy. I have no first-hand knowledge to support that, but have seen situations where product was simply abandoned vs having to package and ship it.
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(just to beat this dead horse a little more but one of my friends and a popular YT content creator was offered an opportunity on dozens of brand new computers from a nationally recognized brand from the late 90âs - theyâd been stored in a warehouse all this time. Even in the collector community, it wasnât worth the effort to take them. Included massive CRT monitors. These things were several thousand when new. You can pick them up on eBay for $100)
I bet the seller of those tubes paid $10-20 for each one.
⌠and Goodwill wonât take them, and you have to pay to take them to the dump here. $5 each.
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