[Elecraft] K2 100 Tuner question

[Don Wilhelm]

Josh,

The stuff needed to punch the panels out of a piece of aluminum and put 
the holes in the right place.  The tools needed to bend the panels at 
the right places.  That stuff can cost thousands of dollars.
It is not the same as making a one-off copy using hand marked pieces.

If you have ever studied what it takes to make production quantities of 
a device, then you would understand that it takes specialized tools that 
can be quite costly.

In my small custom woodworking shop we usually went the inexpensive way 
by making jigs and other pattern tools, but doing even that costs money.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 12/22/2018 7:35 PM, Josh Fiden wrote:
> What tooling?
> 
> 73
> Josh W6XU
> 
> Sent from my mobile device
> 
>> On Dec 22, 2018, at 3:11 PM, Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Once again, the EC2 was discontinued because the metal supplier is no longer in business.
>> To find another vendor is out of the question.  The startup and tooling costs would be excessively high for the projected quantities involved.
>> How many EC2 enclosure could Elecraft sell at a price point of $250 or more per unit (my guess, not anything official from Elecraft)?
>> It was not a high sales volume unit where such startup and tooling costs could be swamped out by the sales volumes.