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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
Lendaddy, I don't know alot about high end machining centers other than we have a few relatively cheap Fadals on our shop floor....so no help from me on the hardware.
I am wondering however, how you can expect to make money on this job compared to an already established machine shop? IOW, are you sure this job will pay for itself? I know the company I work (special machine building) for can't compete with an actual machine shop when it comes to mass production machining even though we a good variety of machines.
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The director of the project is a friend of my fathers. This does not mean there won't be any competition exactly but we just received a non-binding letter of intent today. We have target numbers and so far it looks very good. I have to nail all the numbers down securely before we move and this is a big part of that.
I'm not sure I understand the second part, this would not be a custom built machine. The programming and fixtures are the turnkey components.