How much is this worth?

[Tozamel]

How much is a Chandsew CU563 worth? 
 

[Northmount]

1 hour ago, Tozamel said:

How much is a Chandsew CU563 worth? 
 

Maybe you could provide a little more information and pictures to help identify it and see what condition it is in.

Here is some information from an old thread.  

 

[sojourner999]

I was the person who bought an old Chandler cu563.   
 

it was not a good purchase decision on my part.  I was new to purchasing industrial triple feed machines and similarly new to sewing.  I was naïve.

 

 It was beat up, ridden hard and put away wet.  The needle bar had all kinds of slop,  stuck on one stitch length, hook tip was broken off.  It had so much wear, the table was seriously worn down where the fabric moved over the table.

It was really beat up.  It sits in a storage unit.  I was able to get a genuine Juki 563 with very little usage for $200.  Deal of the century for me.

aside from being beat up, I did a little fabri-cobbling to install a syncronized binder (khsew) for fabric binding.   I had to dremel away a little bit of metal on the feed dog fork so the binding feed dogs could be installed.

With the Chandler, a dremel cut through that metal like a hot knife through butter in a half-second.

when I did the same on the genuine Juki 563, it took forever and a day, multiple sessions, and lots of sparks and cursing and muttering before I barely had enough dremeled out to fit the feed dogs.

that take away for me was that Chinese metal (at that timeframe) is extremely soft compared to a genuine Japanese Juki.  
 

I cannot speak to the quality of the machine you are looking at.  It may be in great condition and not used too heavily.    That said, I would definitely pay less than what I would pay for a genuine Juki 563.

 

personally, unless this is new-old-stock or almost new condition or a couple hundred dollars (no more than. $250), I would pass and wait for a juki.

just my 0.02

 

goos luck.