[Coco] Sacrificial carts - opinions?

[Mark McDougall]

On 10/06/2014 10:02 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:

> Just to be clear, the $10k ballpark estimate that I quoted would be the
> tooling charge that I'd expect from ProtoMold for two molds, each for an
> item about the size of a CoCo cartridge case half. They require a solid
> model of the end product that is mold-ready, i.e., it already has the
> necessary drafts.
	(snip)
> But it doesn't include any engineering cost for
> designing the actual part in a moldable form (i.e., the industrial design
> part of the job, including all necessary draft angles).

Wow, OK. I guess that's why I've heard figures of $60K being bandied about 
in the past! :O

Regards,

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