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Okay guys, you all keep asking about the price. To be honest I don't even know what the final price would be if I were to get these made in a smallish batch, but I'll tell you this much:

There's around 2.5-3hrs of total machining time per block. Workshop machine time typically costs around US$1/minute. Some time can be saved per block with various program modifications, and while I watched the prototypes being run I estimate that about 30 minutes could be saved in total through streamlining the programs.

The silver base-plates cost around US$90 in terms of a raw finished material ready for machining.

Throw on top of that added costs for other materials (delrin), the mount kits, barbs, box that it goes in, etc, and that's about an extra $12US. Then there's extra finishing (lapping, cleaning, polishing) and the costs associated with those.

So add all that up, and you're coming to a close estimate of what the basic immutable costs to make such a block are when contracting machine time like I do.

Then there's the actual CNC programming and tooling costs too, which is a one-time fixed outlay, and that has to be amortised over a production run, although tooling costs are ongoing depending on tool wear rate.

So there ya go. Do the math above to arrive at a "ballpark" figure that we're talking about here, and then decide if you're still interested. This is truly Ferrari material in the category of if you have to ask how much it costs and are concerned about the final answer, then you almost certainly can't afford it.

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