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Transporting bridge CMM via international Air freight

louisd
My company wants to move an installed Zeiss CMM from France to Arizona, (~6000 miles) quickly. They are discussing air freight.
Does anyone have firsthand experience with air-freighting a CMM?

The hairs on my neck stood up when it was mentioned, it sounds so high risk.
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  • My company wants to move an installed Zeiss CMM from France to Arizona, (~6000 miles) quickly. They are discussing air freight.
    Does anyone have firsthand experience with air-freighting a CMM?

    The hairs on my neck stood up when it was mentioned, it sounds so high risk.

    If it's rigged properly it should be okay, I personally would prefer air freight. We had a used Global S 7-10-7 shipped from North Carolina to New Zealand ( 8500+ miles) sea freight. Somewhere in transit the whole crate got crushed breaking off the bracket holding up Z column. Then all the tiedowns came loose allowing the the whole machine slide around inside the crate. That was fun to get it going again without Hexagon support in the country Wink
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    @ Haha, not possible in NZ - unless you want to spend over USD 10.000. Nearest Hexagon contact is in Australia, and they are only Hex "partners" not the real deal. We welded up the bracket, put it together, testrun, installed in the lab, then remote calibration by the Ozzie dudes. That's the only way down under mate. Have to say she's just as accurate/repeatable as her twin we had since brand new.
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  • in reply to Jeeper
    @ Haha, not possible in NZ - unless you want to spend over USD 10.000. Nearest Hexagon contact is in Australia, and they are only Hex "partners" not the real deal. We welded up the bracket, put it together, testrun, installed in the lab, then remote calibration by the Ozzie dudes. That's the only way down under mate. Have to say she's just as accurate/repeatable as her twin we had since brand new.
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