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Old 07-07-2018, 11:12 AM   #4
bill3rail
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Re: I made a thing! Actually, I made 8 things!

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Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20 View Post
Nice job! People will be bugging you for them.
Bug all they want, they are not for sale...Trading for a nice 67-72 C10 I might think about it!

But the cost to manufacture a small run was unobtainable for sales...NOT counting labor they were too expensive to sell! Labor cost would be calculated and I was never good at calculating time. I have copied a lot of products for my own use but never sell them.

I once made an O gauge rail cleaning car that was $80.00 to purchase. At that time my milling machine time was billed out at about $100.00 per hour. I spent about two hours milling plus design time and welding! I recently found all the machined parts to make two more cars but never welded them together!

I just like to see that I can make things myself. Unfortunately, I never remember to take pictures of the process to post online.

Bill
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