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Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:27:47 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
are there differences
in cost between molding opaque parts and molding transparent parts?

I would think not. When I worked in a plastic factory, we ran numerous
plastics on the same machine, with different dies. The only cost
increase would probably more scrap (More chance for error than solid
parts) and the cost of the plastic itself. Manufacturing wise, it is
probably the same.

Scott Sanburn



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  Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
 
(...) Hmm. For the window-walls, they have to run two different molding productions, one for the white wall, and another for the transparent window. That would double the cost of producing window-walls. Then there's also the cost of assembling the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)

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