ORIGINAL: marc s
Colin,
I am not re-inventing the wheel as it works fine, my use of 'better' is probably the wrong word to have used, however it just seems to me that paying for a set of Ferrari alloys when something more 'economical' but still round will do the job is worth a little investigating. I'm just looking to see if a more economical variant is possible so people can choose how much they want to spend.
marcs
why would i be negative , only a waste of time of some things that are called new but have been done before.
you call 29 euro,s for a UAT a lot?
let me sum it up for you:
strainer aout 3,50 usd if you take a thousand or so (no freight or import added)
Festo 2.50
bottle 3.5 euro,s
teflon tape
1 meter of copper alloy round 10 to make the nipples about 8 euro,s a meter (24 nipples)
washer copper alloy for everydisk you make on the lathe ,2 are wasted by the cutting tool same price as the nipples.
Alloy uat part about 1.50 a piece
machine hours i dont count, since i own my own CNC for this , but if i have to have them made its about 90-120 euro,s a hour.
1 nipple on my machine is about 2 minutes , from loading to threaded and cut.
all of this is with no vat added.
Labour : about 15-20 minutes to assemble one and test it on leakes.
now please be my guest to calculate it and see what is left of it..
i wouldnt quit your job yet :-)