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Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:10:58 GMT
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Besides, think of all the people that would want that Mold... they'd
have to send an armed guard with it while it traveled :(
James Brown wrote:
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> In lugnet.general, John Matthews writes:
> > So how much does it cost to ship some molds to Enfield?
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> More than it seems, I would guess. Just shipping would be negligable.
> However, there would be more costs - the production time lost to remove a mold
> from a molder, and again to re-install it; the lost throughput by taking down
> a machine to install the mold at Enfield; the time & manpower and money to
> reconfigure the factory because the machine now being used for geefmuts was
> part of the 'purple bucket assembly line'; etc. etc. etc.
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> By far cheaper to simply make the parts where the factory is, and ship the
> parts wherever they need to go. Mohammad is more mobile than the mountain.
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> James
> http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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