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James wrote:
Not only the cushcrafts, but have you seen the prices for Viagra in Canada ?? jimbo Supply and demand - very little need for them here, we do it the natural way. Dave |
James wrote:
I believe one thing that drives up the prices on all this mil grade equipment is requirments for measured drawings so these things can be repaired or replaced when in service. For example on ship or sub there is machine shops to fix things or fabricate replacement parts. If they put $ 600 toilet seats in b1 bombers, wonder how much the ones in the White House or AF-1 cost ? jimbo Ed wrote: Why are you picking on Haliburton? You think they are the only ones doing this? Don't you remember the $600 toilet seats and $75 hammers from decades ago? .... grin Ed I know someone who used to work at Boeing. That $600 toilet seat came about because after the airplane was designed the Air Force came back with a requirement that necessitated (a) a total redesign of the whole interior of the aircraft or (b) narrowing the lav to the point where a stock seat from a 747 wouldn't fit anymore. $600 per seat was cheaper than ripping the whole thing out and redoing it. The other thing that drives the price up on mil grade equipment is that there's not much of it made. When you are Ford and can count on making 100,000 cars a year you can spend a _lot_ of money on engineering, because it'll be divided by 100,000 when you figure the price of the car. When you're Raytheon and you can only count on selling 100 systems before you need to make something different it would cost the customer many more $$ to engineer the production cost down than it does to just build things stout enough to work without worry. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com |
James wrote:
I believe one thing that drives up the prices on all this mil grade equipment is requirments for measured drawings so these things can be repaired or replaced when in service. For example on ship or sub there is machine shops to fix things or fabricate replacement parts. If they put $ 600 toilet seats in b1 bombers, wonder how much the ones in the White House or AF-1 cost ? jimbo Ed wrote: Why are you picking on Haliburton? You think they are the only ones doing this? Don't you remember the $600 toilet seats and $75 hammers from decades ago? .... grin Ed I know someone who used to work at Boeing. That $600 toilet seat came about because after the airplane was designed the Air Force came back with a requirement that necessitated (a) a total redesign of the whole interior of the aircraft or (b) narrowing the lav to the point where a stock seat from a 747 wouldn't fit anymore. $600 per seat was cheaper than ripping the whole thing out and redoing it. The other thing that drives the price up on mil grade equipment is that there's not much of it made. When you are Ford and can count on making 100,000 cars a year you can spend a _lot_ of money on engineering, because it'll be divided by 100,000 when you figure the price of the car. When you're Raytheon and you can only count on selling 100 systems before you need to make something different it would cost the customer many more $$ to engineer the production cost down than it does to just build things stout enough to work without worry. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com |
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