[R-390] Fowler Industries R-390A on eBay Now

[Les Locklear]

$35K according to the purchasding records from Avondale Shipyards.

Les Locklear
Professional Curmudgeon
Equal Opportunity Annoyer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Shoppa" <tshoppa at wmata.com>
To: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>; <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Fowler Industries R-390A on eBay Now


Cecil wrote:
> Might be watching the first $5000.00 R-390A......unless I missed another 
> one
> that has already won that honor.

I think the government price for the Fowlers new must have been in the $10K+
range. I have no proof of my conclusion, just my eyeballing the complexity
of the instrument (having rebuilt a couple and seen a couple NIB 
subassemblies
over the past couple decades) + cost of what tooling couldn't be recovered 
from past
runs + some very very minimal overhead. Lose some tooling and the gov't
price could have easily shot up to $20K, $30K, even more.

Tim.

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