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Only $10 for all 2024 SX, MX, and SMX series (regularly $30).
But yeah, that seems way too high to justify for an ignition cover.
The Shop
I think he was speaking to 10+ hours of actual CNC time.
I don't see an ignition cover being to involved but it's the lugs I was curious about.
This is nothing more than me purely having my moment as a parts geek.
Ideally, I'd love to go to a moto savy place and he probably forgets more in a day than I've learned in my life.
I have seen some horrific stuff over the years, like people using smaller rads 'to save weight' and not grasping the basic concepts of design and manufacture.
We 3D printed a set of fork lugs, and the dumb shits had no concept of what it even did, no way to hold it to machine anything, Colossal waste of time and money. By the time anyone proper got to see them, it was already too late to do anything.
Pit Row
If you're looking for KTM/Husky lugs, we're slowly making progress on that, but something else keeps popping up with higher priority, so they've been delayed quite a bit. I'm hoping to get back on it next week.
Here's the 3D printed test fit:
After a while , it stops being funny.
And then there is the moral ' can you copy this ' dilemma.. yes I can, but I am not going to . And then folk copy bit that have to fit together, and get the limits wrong so they don't... all good fun.
Figured no harm in asking.
It's not rocket science, a lot of people value their time way more than it's worth
Reverse engineering after could be a little bit of coin due to the time it takes.
The machining on that with our 5 axis prob wouldn’t be all that long and could be done to within 2-4 thou. With a Rescan after to match to original part and check tolerance.
Unless you have super deep pockets it probably wouldn’t be worth it. If you had a cad model already it would be way cheaper.
We do mostly aerospace stuff so our tolerances are tight and we have one of the best scanners on the market. That stuff comes at a price though
As soon as I've got some basic dimensions I cut some material, put the part in the vise, and start roughing the part.
As the parts running I finish measuring and programming. Then I finish machine.
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On the other hand the the place that makes a $2k part has a highly paid engineer in a nice ac controlled room, on a pc with expensive software who works at 25-50% he's capable of, because as an engineer he thinks he's special. And that's assuming the model is correct, from what I've seen of recent 3D models, there aren't many engineers who can make good models.
After he creates the model it probably needs to be checked against the part. Then some paperwork needs to be created for the project.
A traveller is probably required for somebody to be able to get some material of the shelf and sawn.
Then the programmer who's also working at 25-50% of the speed he's capable of gets some paperwork. Goes to the relavant directory to fetch the 3D file. Looks at it, goes to get a coffee and bullshit with some of the machinists, or smoke a ciggy out back. Then sits back, starts programming. Then creates a setup sheet, with all the tools and processes outlined. That alone probably takes him an hour. Probably specifies tools that aren't in the tool crib so they need to be ordered.
Then the setup sheet and material arrives at the machine. The operator backplots the NC code on the machine, sees that the programming is crap, goes back to the programmer and tells him to reprogram the part so that it can actually be made. Programmer gets pissed off, drags his feet reprogramming the part.
Then the foreman, programmer and machinist have a meeting that takes min 30 minutes to figure out how to make the part, meeting ends with most participants being none the wisier. At that point it's left to the NC machinist to figure how to make the part, having concluded that the neither the foreman or programmer have a clue.
(It's amazing how many NC programmers can't run a machine)
Then the part gets made. Then it goes into inspection, inspector not realising it's only a fork lug decides to a 100% inspection. Flags all sorts of errors that are totally irrelavant. That meeting to tell him it's ok and the paperwork required waste an hour.
That's why it's a $2k part, nothing to do with the actual time required to make the part, it's all the ineffieciencies, the ineptitude, the overhead required to employee the people who contribute nothing to making the part
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I'm the engineer/programmer/NC machinist/Inspector/floor cleaner etc etc. I don't waste time, if the machines running i'm engineering/programming/washing floors/cutting material/talking to customers etc etc.
I'm still as busy as I've ever been. Must mean something
6 in the front office
4 foreman
6 engineers
6 programmers
4 inspectors
1 welder
10 on manual machines
the rest on CNC machines over 3 shifts.
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The company that charges $2k would likely have
6 in the front office
1 foreman
1 engineer
2 programmers
1 inspector
1 on manual machines
2 CNC machinists.
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