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CHARLIEG
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Posted: 02:14am 30 Jan 2026

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I want to purchase more CMM2 computers. Bought the ones I have from RICTECH LTD in New Zealand but cannot now. Can anybody tell me where I can purchase them?

Thanks!

EDIT: Moved to correct forum. (Grogster)
Edited 2026-01-30 15:01 by Grogster

mclout999

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Posted: 04:39am 30 Jan 2026

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Put this over in the related Forum. Topic.

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Grogster

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Posted: 05:02am 30 Jan 2026

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I've moved the thread.

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Grogster

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Posted: 05:15am 30 Jan 2026

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CHARLIEG said Bought the ones I have from RICTECH LTD in New Zealand but cannot now.

Just in case anyone is wondering why, it's cos of the new American tariffs.
Well, not the tariffs themselves per se', but the extra mountain of paperwork that I have to now complete here at my end, if I want to send anything into USA.

If I were a private individual sending a parcel to USA, that's pretty simple, but as I am a company entity, the amount of new extra red-tape I have to complete - because I am a company exporting to the USA - is so annoying and frustrating, that I have basically given up on sending things to USA now.

It would be a different story, if I were exporting hundreds of thousands of units or something, but you still have to do all the hoop-jumping, weather it is 1 unit or a million units, so it becomes financially uneconomical to spend all the extra time and fight the bureaucracy around this, for fifty or sixty units per year.

I keep planning to talk to someone at New Zealand Post about this, but actually getting to talk to a HUMAN who knows what they are talking about with this, and not a equally frustrating dumb AI chat-bot zombie, is much harder then you think.

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Mixtel90

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Posted: 08:17am 30 Jan 2026

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I doubt if you could get pre-built units into the US now. Any components sourced in China come, of course, from the very gates of Hell and mustn't be allowed onto good, God-fearing US dirt at all. Even the case is from those despicable people in Canada that won't give the US the water from the Great Lakes.
1000% tariffs on everything or I'll spit my dummy out of the pram again!

The best I can suggest is to try to source the components within the US and produce a US version with the PCB manufactured there. You may need a new PCB layout and the cost will be way more expensive, but that's what you get from having a convicted felon in charge.

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