24 Aug
2007
24 Aug
'07
11:36 a.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
Anyway, You will end up spending all of your money on
the tooling.
Even crappy simple molds are *expensive* - for the standard switch
handle (I am guessing you are talking about the paddles on a PDP-8/e
and such), I would bet that just the mold would start out at five
hundred bucks, from a discount tool and die shop (with a resulting
horrid job). For a good professional job, get into four figures.
<sarcasm> Ok America only DOES BIG BUISNESS today with BIG WAGES </sarcarm>
I would expect since you are making a copy of a exsisting product
you could have small production run made cheaply. With just a kitchen table
in my one-room apartment there is no way I could do any of the work
duplicating handles.
That is minor point however since nobody seems to have a interest in having
handles made.
--
Will
PS. Looks at all the products around the house ... Made in CHINA.
Still you get what you pay for and it is hard to find quality any where.
I keep forgeting that a good chunk of a computers expensive price was
the front panel. I am guessing about $3K in the early 70's for the
switches and lights for a PDP-11.
Ah my homebrew amp ...
The only stuff made in a AMERICA is NOS tubes and special order Power &
Audio transformers.The other TUBES in my amp is from the USSR.
The good audio caps are ($25 each .2uf 600 V ) from Germany. The
regular caps are from France. The most crappy part -- the chassis
is from Canada. The rest is US surplus from the 70's.
PS. The speakers are from Japan, I can't afford the good ones from the UK)