the Cascade XXX

25th February 2004, 08:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Cathar
The middle plate and base-plate together accounted for about 85% of what one was paying for with a regular Cascade, with 90% of that being the cost of the machine time. i.e. the machine time costs for the middle/base plate represents about 75% of the total cost of a copper Cascade.

The middle and base-plates for the XXX will each have about 3x the machine time involved, for a total of around 3hrs of machine time, as well as super-high quality machine lapping, as well as the base-plate made out of 99.998% pure silver. All up, around the $350US mark or so for each as a rough prediction, and around $260US each for each of the two copper-based prototypes. That's also not including the cost of the CNC programming. i.e. basically 2 long days of workshop time to make 7 blocks.

I can't imagine more than 5 people wanting one (I keep two silvers).

/me faints

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25th February 2004, 08:53

Sounds nice, very nice...

kristos · 26th February 2004, 03:36

the costs are insane

I'd love to see that silver thing of him tested against a direkt die setup

Prolly never gonna happen cuz you can't just "undo" the direkt die setup :/

26th February 2004, 03:36	#3
kristos Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,554	the costs are insane I'd love to see that silver thing of him tested against a direkt die setup Prolly never gonna happen cuz you can't just "undo" the direkt die setup :/ __________________ "Welcome to the internet; where men are men, women are men, and little girls are FBI agents."

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25th February 2004, 08:53	#2
Vulk Posts: n/a	Sounds nice, very nice...