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Richard, that would depend on many things and since I have no kids, I will not even guess on that question.
We have a photogrammetric scanner here is is 14 or 15 years old. It cost $70,000 new. It still works only because we are tinkerers. The only factory service is one guy that lives in Austria, so we would have to fly him to here and they charge crazy money for his service. Microsoft bought the company 10 years ago and the prices did nothing but go up.
It has some little electric motors that lift the glass platen. One motor on each corner and each motor has a little bitty transmission. Microsoft quoted over a grand each last time we checked and I feel sure they are even more now. We can get the raw motor and transmission from a supplier and spend an hour or so fighting with it and soldering tiny little wires or pay crazy money to Bill Gates. We tinker on the parts and make it work just fine.
We could (in theory) buy a new scanner that makes a full 9x9 12 micron scan in just over one minute. Our scanner takes 45 minutes. The new scanner is "only" 250K.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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