[Elecraft] K2 100 Tuner question

[Josh Fiden]

Oh come on. Now you're just making things up. 

I just had some structural brackets made. They had 18 holes, laser cut and bent from 3/8" thick 304 stainless. They were $45 ea for 13 pcs. Supplier did the CAD for me from my pencil sketch. Took him less than 10 minutes, no extra charge. 

A little difficult to extrapolate from that example, other than to note the very low volume, it's expensive material and slow to cut. 

73
Josh W6XU

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> On Dec 22, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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> Josh,
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> I may not be up to speed, but there are startup costs for anything.  Those costs have to be added to the product cost and for small volumes, it can be prohibited.
> Entering a CAD file, getting scheduling from a small shop that may have a full schedule already can be costly.
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> 73,
> Don W3FPR
> 
>> On 12/22/2018 9:16 PM, Josh Fiden wrote:
>> Hi Don,
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>> Sounds like you're not up to speed on 21st century sheet metal fabrication.
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>> Small volume parts like this would be cut on a laser and bent with a CNC press brake. The only setup is loading the programs and there is no tooling. If someone draws the parts using a CAD program like Solid Edge, the resulting 3D models can be utilized directly by the vendor. Even small job shops have laser cutting ability, especially for small gauge material like this.
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