On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 01:48 -0400, Organic Engines wrote: > Hi, > > I have made 5 machines so far and I am working on my sixth. > > Of the two most economically successful parts I have made so far, one > costs 50 cents to buy and I use about 20 a month, the other one costs > about 9 dollars to buy and I use about 4 a month. ... snip > Does anybody else have thoughts about this and where it's going? > > Dan
I needed some swaged stand-offs, so I spent some time Googling. After a while I found what I wanted and was just about to put in an order. Then I thought, I am going to have to pay for shipping and wait a week ... scr___ it, I'll just make them. It took way too long to do the program, but at the end of the day, I had more parts than could use, and now I can make more in no time. There is allot more cost to an item than just the purchase price. I think there is allot of value to being able to do it yourself. Too bad, it takes a team of scientists to make the really cool stuff. My plan for making money is to develop a product and hire myself to machine the parts. One product might be retrofit fuel injection systems for older motorcycles. I could make them multi-fuel friendly. Or full sized reproductions of Spirit and Opportunity. I could make the chassis and people could fit them with their own PC, GPS, wifi and other electronics. I just need to come up with something with a market. -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC/EMC CNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending Craftsman AA 109 restoration Shizuoka ST-N/EMC CNC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
