[Jewelry making - Article 01370] - Re: [Orchid] CAD/CAM Milling Machines

[Bruce Holmgrain]

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>         ps if you charge one hundred dollars to hand carve a wax. you
>     would need to carve two hundred waxes with this machine to pay for
>     it and pay yourself. I carve about three to four waxes per week it
>     would take me several years to pay for this machine it will be
>     obsolete in two or three and not worth 20 percent of what you paid
>     for it. 

    In my SQHO, anyone that buys one of the newer modeling machines at a
    rate of 30-100 thousand dollars needs to be sure to keep that
    machine running 24/7. I, personally, send the data out to someone
    that does this. Last year these people were running their machines
    just during working hours, but today, you can bet they are running
    for hours and hours after closing. 

    I have a friend that purchased 3 machining centers at about $250,000
    each a few years ago to create gears for gear pumps and found that
    he couldn't find the engineers that could keep them running. A
    little glitch in a program could cause a ten thousand dollar crash.
    He now has the gears produced in India using old technology with
    three workers per mill. 

Bruce D. Holmgrain
http://www.goldwerx.com
guy AT goldwerx.com
JA Certified Master Bench Jeweler / CAD/CAM Solutions

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