From: R. Gary Hall (Robert@RobertHallPhotography.com)
Date: 07/24/01-01:10:47 PM Z
Judy,
Have you sold your tubes?
I would be interested.
R. Gary Hall
Infrared and lith Prints...
www.RobertHallPhotography.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: 8x10 BTZS tubes
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Dave Rose wrote:
>
> > ... But forty grand for
> > plastic-injection tooling sounds way expensive, especially for a product
> > that presumably does not require tight tolerances and super high quality
> > tooling.
>
> I do NOT stand by that number -- this was a day FULL of numbers in a gamut
> of unlikely venues, from income tax to megabytes, and the vicissitudes of
> alignment code. I do know the *effect* of the number when cited was such
> as to make clear why no mold was made.
>
> But you never know what things will cost -- take Ronald Reagan's
> daughter's riff on estimate for repairs to White House (Sunday or Monday
> NY Times). Very amusing. (Maybe they should send it to Taiwan?)
>
> cheers,
>
> Judy
>
>
> If anyone wants to make huge quantities of plastic processing
> > drums, contact me, I have good connections in Taiwan and experience in
> > injection molding. (My guess is that ultimately the homemade Home Depot
> > approach is more suitable).
> >
> > Dave Rose
> > Cactus Cowboy
> > Big Wonderful Wyoming
> >
> > Judy wrote:
> >
> > > Incidentally, the fellow explained that the reason these are
> > > proportionately so much more expensive than the 4x5s is that they made
a
> > > mold for the 4x5s but not for the 8x10s, which had to be glued by
hand.
> > > Why no mold for 8x10? It seems the mold cost $40,000 or like that to
> > > make... He also said they don't make the 8x10s any more, tho
apparently
> > > they still supply schools.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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