Random Thought Thread

Every good knife needs a backup.

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(Thanks Jo the Machinist Jo the Machinist :) )
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Hell, it's expensive even when you do have an area to work on it yourself. #forddailydriver
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I thought I was having brake pads done.

turns out we needed rotors pads and a wheel bearing.

come to find out there's another bearing due to be replaced asap.

so it's not really anything that I'd have felt comfortable doing myself past brake pads but today slapped me in the face with an unexpected grand siphoned from my savings.

way too much fun
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
Nice Mido! I think not that well known in the US . . . but those who know, know.


Works well on Soylent Green.
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I really like it. I never take it off unless I'm working with a strong magnet or something similar. It's beat up from working in the shop and vehicles etc but I like it just fine like that. I last set the time for daylight saving time and it has gained 48 seconds since then, but it's pretty consistent and that's less than 2.5 seconds a day which I think is pretty good for a "user grade" watch. Probably better than Mark's Rolex. Although he has worn his for almost 30 years and beats the piss out of it and it still functions really well. My other watch is also a Mido but I don't wear it anymore because it doesn't have a bezel on it and I actually use that pretty frequently in the shop for a lot of different things. It has the same caliber in it but it's a tuned chronometer that was remarkably accurate. I have considered having the guts swapped. If I told you the accuracy I was getting from that watch you'd think I was exaggerating. I love the mechanical watches because the amazing human ingenuity they represent in machining precision and materials science to beat half a million times a day and only miss a few beats a day. I admire that accomplishment and enjoy wearing one. Jo thinks I'm retarded. She isn't wrong.
 
Slowvirus said:
Yes, lefties please!
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Man I really wish I could accommodate that.

Looking at this like as a product design engineering consultant (I am) a job shop (I am) and a contract CNC programmer, the cost to properly develop the untested design in CAD was about $8,000. Programming, setup and fixturing will probably be close to 20K to set up for production for all of the different parts. Add engineering changes due to design tweaks after testing and validation and the cost to put these into production in a shop with normal burdened overhead is probably 30-40K (we're pretty lean, a shop like Spiderco or Benchmade is probably double that for a new pattern). Divided by 100 folders is $350 amortized expenses. Plus material, carbide, spindle time, heat treat, finishing, assembly, tuning and final profit margin and they're going to be pretty expensive.

Now, a left handed variation might cost half of that to set up. And we make ten of them. It ends up being a $4,000 custom folder. That isn't a good value and a person would be better served having a custom maker build them something using manufacturing processes better suited to very low volumes.

I'm sorry, but I can't offer a fair value using the manufacturing processes we're going to employ in those volumes, and I don't want to get into mixing our processes either (I'm already chronically overwhelmed trying to juggle things here). I really wish I could do this for you but I'm simply not up to it.
 
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