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El Propo finally had some free time so he’s rubbing off about 50 of them right now!

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Wow. They look awesome.
 
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I read the thread title and was kinda excited. Told myself imma get me one of these.... Then I saw the picture and knew, yeah I probably won't be able to afford a first production run one. Lol!

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That was my thinking as well. Guessing the first run will be about $200 each. Materials and machining isn't cheap. :)

Someone in China will do knock-offs out of molded rubber or formed plastic for $20.

Flying_Lavey said:
I read the thread title and was kinda excited. Told myself imma get me one of these.... Then I saw the picture and knew, yeah I probably won't be able to afford a first production run one. Lol!

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RiverDave said:
Waiting to see what annodizing costs are going to be.. I'll have some #'s soon enough, but I'd bet they will be more affordable than you think. ;) :D

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Every time you say that, the price is astronomical. Just saying. ;)

What color anodize you going with?
 
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SoCalDave said:
Comfortable numb and I could take care of that. Would need one hell of an order though to cover the tooling/manufacturing cost. :D
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Curious what would a single cavity injection mold cost these days for something simple like that ? I have not been around the industry since my father ran Cambro, and he retired twenty five years ago.
 
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SoCalDave said:
Comfortable numb and I could take care of that. Would need one hell of an order though to cover the tooling/manufacturing cost. :D
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We'll just create the plug off what Dave has machined above. A little fiberglass and some resin and we're on our way.
 
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ChumpChange said:
We'll just create the plug off what Dave has machined above. A little fiberglass and some resin and we're on our way.
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Laser cutting stainless would be so much faster
 
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Riverbottom said:
Curious what would a single cavity injection mold cost these days for something simple like that ? I have not been around the industry since my father ran Cambro, and he retired twenty five years ago.
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The cost for the mold would be factored by the quality (China, Canada or USA built) and quantity of the product demand (orders).Example is we manufacture disposable deli containers and lids. One of our biggest output systems consist of a $700k injection molding machine, a (mostly manufactured in house) mold at about $280k and a stacker to sort the lids (designed and built in house) for another $120k. So your in it for a little over a mil and have to recoup those cost rather quickly. Systsem runs a 4.25 diameter lid, 24 cavities at a .4 sec cycle. Do the math and were pushing over 500,000 lids a day through that system...your results may vary. :D

Good old Cambro, was one of my customers when I was the service manager for Husky Injection Molding Systems. Good group of guys down there. Chuck Warren ring a bell?
 
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...What am I missing here...how does that actually cover the hitch or the receiver???...
 
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ChumpChange said:
We'll just create the plug off what Dave has machined above. A little fiberglass and some resin and we're on our way.
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Yeah glass would be easy and cost efficient more than injecting molding.
 
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SoCalDave said:
The cost for the mold would be factored by the quality (China, Canada or USA built) and quantity of the product demand (orders).Example is we manufacture disposable deli containers and lids. One of our biggest output systems consist of a $700k injection molding machine, a (mostly manufactured in house) mold at about $280k and a stacker to sort the lids (designed and built in house) for another $120k. So your in it for a little over a mil and have to recoup those cost rather quickly. Systsem runs a 4.25 diameter lid, 24 cavities at a .4 sec cycle. Do the math and were pushing over 500,000 lids a day through that system...your results may vary. :D

Good old Cambro, was one of my customers when I was the service manager for Husky Injection Molding Systems. Good group of guys down there. Chuck Warren ring a bell?
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My father started there in 1964 he was one of ten employees at that time, he retired in 1993. I remember when they got their first injection machine making disposable cups. I was probably 13 and could watch it for hours. I am sure I heard of you back in the day. My dad was Dick Hammond. It was a fun place to spend weekends operating machines and driving forklifts. I am sure OSHA doesn't let kids go to work in factories with their fathers anymore.
 
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Riverbottom said:
My father started there in 1964 he was one of ten employees at that time, he retired in 1993. I remember when they got their first injection machine making disposable cups. I was probably 13 and could watch it for hours. I am sure I heard of you back in the day. My dad was Dick Hammond. It was a fun place to spend weekends operating machines and driving forklifts. I am sure OSHA doesn't let kids go to work in factories with their fathers anymore.
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Yeah they built an empire out of that business. Had never meet your father but had heard of him through contacts at the plant...small world we live in...
 
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SoCalDave said:
The cost for the mold would be factored by the quality (China, Canada or USA built) and quantity of the product demand (orders).Example is we manufacture disposable deli containers and lids. One of our biggest output systems consist of a $700k injection molding machine, a (mostly manufactured in house) mold at about $280k and a stacker to sort the lids (designed and built in house) for another $120k. So your in it for a little over a mil and have to recoup those cost rather quickly. Systsem runs a 4.25 diameter lid, 24 cavities at a .4 sec cycle. Do the math and were pushing over 500,000 lids a day through that system...your results may vary. :D

Good old Cambro, was one of my customers when I was the service manager for Husky Injection Molding Systems. Good group of guys down there. Chuck Warren ring a bell?
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We shipped Cambro at the truck docks during my college years. 6 pallets with 1,245 pieces. We had to break them down to cube out trailers, felt sorry for the guys at the other end counting out those giant orders!
 
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