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Having researched aluminium housing
manufacture and then attempting to make patterns for a composite ( al. with
steel wear face) end housing, I can assure you it isn't as easy as it
first appears.
Hi George,
I talked to RB at length a year ago about their
housings. There were no technical issues in the way, but they
just hadn't received that much interest in getting them done, even at
"only" $1200 each. They said the front housing was all ready to cut
the prototype, and they only needed about a month to finish it, but it had
been shelved for other projects.
At the same time, they said there had been another one of
those wacko California laws passed that seriously raised the price of
their flame spraying process. They guessed it would cost $2k each for the
housings at the new price, and were going to try to find someone
outside of the state to treat them. Unless they could get the
price back down, they didn't figure on making any more, and I don't blame
them. How many car guys will pay $6k to lose about 36 lbs? I
bet not many people on this list would pay that for an airplane.
Cheers,
Rusty
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