Bindery Equipment Reconditioning Process
Product Description
Many wonder what certain machinery dealers do to a used machine prior to selling it. Machines can be sold in the following conditions: “As Is”, “Good Running”, “Reconditioned”, and “Rebuilt.”
As Is
Is the way you buy a machine at an auction. If you ask a machinery dealer to guarantee that the machine cycles, he generally will. We certainly will.
Good Running
This means that the machine runs, it may have worn parts but the machine will operate as it should.
Reconditioned
Generally describes a machine that has been checked, worn parts replaced, cleaned, and if necessary, painted. This machine should run well and we warranty the machine.
Rebuilt
Is a little trickier. To some it may mean that every nut, bolt, bushing, and bearing is replaced with new ones. To others it may mean that all moving parts are replaced. Either way the machine should be stripped to its frame, assessed and literally re-built. This is how SPIEL ASSOCIATES rebuilds most of our used collators. We strip the machine down; replace all moving parts and tubing. We clean and paint the machine. Below please find a series of pictures representing a rebuild of a Sterling Collator.
This is how the machine looked when it came in
The machine is stripped down to its frame and painted.
All parts are assessed and/or repaired and replaced.
The gathering arms are assembled and the parts are installed.
The rest of the machine is assembled and new hoses are installed.
The machine is now ready for testing. It will be sold with a warranty on parts and labor.
Here are other reconditioned binding machines Spiel Associates has sold in the past.
Sickinger/GBC Automatic Punch
The Portland Punch
Nygren/Dahly Heavy Duty Drill
The Sterling Automatic Punch
Didde Gather-All Collater
When ordering used machinery through Spiel Associates or any other machinery dealer, make sure that you investigate what condition the machine will be sold: As is, good running, reconditioned, or rebuilt.
Testimonials
The Coilmaster Jr. is very easy to set up and reliable as can be. We train temps to run the machine and they do a great job. We save 60 – 70% on plastic coil costs by making our own coil.
Their training was awesome. Now the girls that were trained are training others. We are coil binding 18″ long books. The Coilmaster is truly great!!!
I purchased my first Digibinder in 2007. I get buried once a year by Town Reports so I bought another one. Once a year I drive one of them down to Spiel for preventative maintenance. These things last forever.
The Wiremaster Pro is amazing. It does the work of three wire binders with half the labor. We love it.
We’ve been doing plastic coil binding for 30 years but David Spiel really took us back to school. He is the first vendor ever to teach us about pitch, and filament gauge, hole shape and diameters. The Coilmaster Jr. Plus rocks!
We had never done coil binding before we purchased The Sterling Digipunchmaster and The Coilmaster Jr. Plus. We bound 2,500 on our first day of production. Since we purchased them during the pandemic, we received no installation or training, just great installation and training videos.
I can’t say enough good about the people at this company. They are excellent to work with. I like the equipment they sell too.
I can’t say enough good about the people at this company. They are excellent to work with. I like the equipment they sell too.
What we like is the ease of operation and set up. The machine is what I call an open system, a machine where it is easy to see how it operates and easy to locate all the functions.
We’re getting 650 books per hour on The Coilmaster and we’re loving it. We have 250,000 books to do in the next two months and instead of dreading this job like we used to, we now say: Bring it on.
In-line coil forming and inserting is the most important feature for us on the Coilmaster. Buying and waiting for plastic coil proved to be a hardship. We can now optimize our production time, turning around multiple jobs more quickly.
We tried another automatic coil machine and it failed to perform. We bought a Coilmaster System and after it validated our decision, we bought two more systems. This machine gave us the production speeds we were looking for.
