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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Switch Caps

From: Jeff Coulter <jeffc@...>
Date: 2003-10-28

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Mike Rivers wrote:

> Hey everybody!
>
> 'Spose we all get together and get NEW SWITCH CAPS molded? There's bound
> to be somebody somwheres with a metal shop, we could get a mold made and
> send it to an injection molding place. (Just a suggestion, mine's in
> great shape)


of the 4 machines i have worked on 3 needed new caps.
[mine was not, thankfully, one of them]
they are surely the single most common item in need of replacement,
second only to... maybe tapes? [a far more costly commodity]

i don't think people would be willing to pay more than... say $5 US for
a replacement cap. but i do think $5 US would be resonable to most folks.
[perhaps $6 US with a shipping fee included]

at that price i would order a spare just to have one around.

could they be made for less than that?

anyone else have a price point they would find reasonable?

what would you consider an UN-reasonable price?
i think $$10 US would just be too hard to justify.

my two cents, or as much as $6.
...jeff


> Might not be too expensive - then again, it might.
>
> I think I'll start with a little research that goes a little something
> like this... ( a-one, and a-two,...and-a [cue strings] )
>

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