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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 308075, member: 54"]Finally got the insurance certificate for the additional warehouse today! That was the only part of the lease process that looked impossible for a while. Big insurers declined one after the other because I mentioned online sales. Our traditional insurer for our family businesses even turned me down for kind of a silly reason, he got my business confused with the US Naval Surface Warfare Center. He found that place on the web and saw that they are involved with guns, explosives, etc. and our broker wasn’t able to convince him that had no connection with me. But she found an insurance company that was happy to take my company for a very low annual premium, about half of what I had to pay in past years. So it was worth the hassle and worries. I should be moving some stuff starting Friday, new leased building is only one block from my present location. If I didn’t mention it before, one reason for the new space is that it already has 480 volts/3 phase in its main power panel, and several of my machine tools need that voltage. The present location has only 208 volts/3 phase (and 120 volts) which about half of the machines can use. We can make the higher voltage with a transformer but with very limited total current available there, and an upgrade unaffordable, it isn’t really worth the effort.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 308075, member: 54"]Finally got the insurance certificate for the additional warehouse today! That was the only part of the lease process that looked impossible for a while. Big insurers declined one after the other because I mentioned online sales. Our traditional insurer for our family businesses even turned me down for kind of a silly reason, he got my business confused with the US Naval Surface Warfare Center. He found that place on the web and saw that they are involved with guns, explosives, etc. and our broker wasn’t able to convince him that had no connection with me. But she found an insurance company that was happy to take my company for a very low annual premium, about half of what I had to pay in past years. So it was worth the hassle and worries. I should be moving some stuff starting Friday, new leased building is only one block from my present location. If I didn’t mention it before, one reason for the new space is that it already has 480 volts/3 phase in its main power panel, and several of my machine tools need that voltage. The present location has only 208 volts/3 phase (and 120 volts) which about half of the machines can use. We can make the higher voltage with a transformer but with very limited total current available there, and an upgrade unaffordable, it isn’t really worth the effort.[/QUOTE]
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