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From: MillsGem
Date: Sun Feb 26 18:51:12 2006
 
     
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Lee,

    There is no mystery to the difference in price between the cartridge
    tumblers and the jewelry tumblers. It is a volume thing. The machines
    are basically the same, but the markets are altogether different.
    There are tens of millions of Americans who seek identity in gun
    ownership and damned few who make jewelry (by comparison). You can
    sell beaucoups cartridge burnishers, but not near as many jewelry
    burnishers.If you are a manufacturer of vibratory tumblers you can
    easily adjust your price downward when someone wants to buy a million
    of the gizmos. 

    One of the key considerations of late is that the cartlidge
    burnishers have gone to the dry burnishing method and have redesigned
    their barrels in such a way that they are not conducive to wet
    burnishing using heavy media. I don't have a clue as to why this might
    not have been a "sweetheart deal " within the industry, but the odor
    seems to be present. 

Ron Mills, Mills Gem Co. Los Osos, Ca

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