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Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
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Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:48:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:24:29 GMT, "Gene Rodriguez III" <gr3@superlink.net>
> wrote:
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> > On a darker note, I think what it says is that thinwalls are still in
> > production, while window walls are not. The difference in manufacturing costs
> > CAN NOT be that much different. The only extra costs would that they would
> > have to put window walls back into production.
The Walls are still in production. The big Adventurers set has one. No panes,
though, so they might not be in production.
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> Then there's also the cost of assembling the window-walls. I don't know how
> automated that process is. Even so, it's an additional productional line,
> with specialized equipment and materials. I don't remember with these
> pieces if the windows snap in reliably, or if they must be glued. Seems
> like I've got some of each (glued and snapped), but I could be
> mis-remembering.
Those windows have *never* been pre-assembled. I have some from their first
year's release, and I had to snap the windows in myself.
Jeff
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| (...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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