If I was hydraulically inclined, tiny and wanted a product line, I would look very seriously at making repair/upgrade parts for the $5000 1 ton chinese mini excavators that seem to be all over the place all of a sudden.
They're the 4x6 bandsaw of the earthmoving world. Strictly hobby grade...
I've has a MOPA laser marker with a JPT source for years now. I think I paid $8k to direct import it, but that was years ago when MOPA was the new hotness. The software is clunky, but it works fine. There's not much to break, and all the consumables like the lasers are commodity.
But yes, the...
Because being a business owner is only fun when there's work and the customers pay and the machines don't break and the material is good and delivered on time and the work is steady but not piling up.
There are plenty of guys who want to do an honest day's work, turn their work brains off after...
Oh, that is easy. Walmart contracts with Reliable Janitorial Services, LLC. That's a perfectly legal company registered in the state. But the workers are on RJS's payroll, not theirs.
When and if someone investigates RJS, they'll find all the workers supplied falsified I9 forms. But RJS is...
A quick google shows the median wage for japanese AUTO workers is $37 per hour. US auto workers is $28 per hour. Toyota auto workers in the USA is $26. Mexico is $2.70, for what that is worth.
Okay what does said "intervention" look like? Military occupation? Go win some hearts and minds coutesy of depleted uranium donations and airstrikes? Send the FBI against the cartels? Have the CIA sponsor more coups and topple more governments in latin america?
It's great to say "go intervene"...
As long as the world exists, there will be comparatively "affordable labor" somewhere. Enjoy fighting a war when the manufacturing base of the country consists of everyone selling each other insurance.
Sure, Lockheed Martin can make twenty jets a year, but it was the car companies and the...
If you had more experience, you could leverage your Chinese skills to be a liason between a (owned or contracted) Chinese machine shop and a western company, but they probably won't let you actually turn handles, and they would only want to pay you local wages if they do.
If you had some...
I think you're in my neck of the woods if you want to stop by some evening and try running a batch on my grinder to see if that's a workflow that works before you splash out the money. Have you run a surface grinder before?
I'm out of town at the moment but will be back in a couple weeks. The...
OH!
You are getting your stock ground to thickness because YOU DON'T HAVE A TOOL CHANGER!!!!
Now it all makes sense.
Get yourself back to HGR and scare up something that changes tools for you for $5000, and this whole problem goes out the window.
I know this, because I started with a knee...
For each assembly, you need 120 blanks? So for 200 assemblies a month, you need to process 24000 pieces?
If so, stop farting around and just buy a double disc grinder, or a Blanchard grinder at least.
A fiber laser that can cut 1/4" steel isn't that expensive either. The labor hours to pick...
Which I did, and then some time later he went on a posting rampage telling everyone who was trying to contribute to the thread how stupid we all are and what a big tough self-reliant Alaskan he is.
But when the question is "why do these things cost to much to buy" he's asking a business...
In this case? Yes.
I've spent the past twenty years designing and manufacturing power control circuitry specifically for heating. I have some patents on the same. I've made about three million heater controllers. I am on one of the standards technical panels at UL.
He might be great at rigging...
Wow, that got personal fast. I also have plenty of junk to make one from scraps laying around the shop. And... Mine would be better than yours.
I've also developed a lot of products and know what doing it to a commercially viable standard means and costs.
But hey, when you are dead, feel...
They're expensive because everyone running one is fancy, and everyone who isn't fancy says "A torch works fine for me."
If the volume was there, could you make one for $2000? Definitely, but it'd be a few hundred grand in development time to get to a real product, and probably $500 to $1000 in...
Just use aluminum. If you're worried about weight and gluing area, face groove the aluminum.
But
You're only talking 40 pounds of force spread across two rings. Your glue area is something like a square inch with a 1/8" thick bulkhead, so the shear stress on the seam is something like 20psi...
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