derekhawkins,
The real kick in the teeth come from the "Internet
Experts" who start knocking your attempts. When I started Home Depot
sold bolts for 5 cents. Now they are 15 cents. MDF went from $9 for
a 2' X 4' to over $12. Threaded rod and gas pipe became real crap when
it started coming from China. All my local hardwarestores closed. The
one across from my house was there for 30 years. Then it closed after
I started using it. The price of the MDF keeps going up along with the
price of shipping. The grey paint also went up. Just as you got the
numbers crunched things change bigtime. A dinky machine would cost
$300 to produce in the US. CheapCNC bailed after selling a few
machines made out of HDPE for over 1K each. I made some patterns to
layout Brute parts. I made them out of old CD drives. As I started
marking out hole locations I got flashbacks of my first sweatshop job.
That was that! There is a guy selling an all metal CNC mill for $600
and a wooden kit is also available from another guy.
John
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "derekhawkins" <eldata@...> wrote:
>
> >If you are lucky you can pay yourself 50 cents per hour
> >after they are sold.
>
> Many truly feel they can build a better or more attractive mousetrap so
> they start off with good intentions and a lot of sweat only to realize
> what you've just said. They then resort to unscrupulous methods in
> order to recoup their losses and continue upon a path leading
> to "hell". We've seen this many times with CNC offerings that are just
> too good to be true.
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "crankorgan" <john@> wrote:
> >
>