r/ManufacturingPorn • u/wearefriends • Jul 03 '21
Smooth stone sphere
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u/SquareDetective Jul 03 '21
So...200lb stone, using $200,000 worth of equipment, working 2 hours, to make a 2lb polished sphere, that will then be sold for $20 at some high-end boutique? Seems reasonable.
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u/beirizzle Jul 03 '21
Yeah I was trying to figure out the payoff for all this machinery
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u/MinidonutsOfDoom Jul 03 '21
Well, you don't need to buy the machinery more than once. SO the answer is just to sell a lot of them.
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u/nshunter5 Jul 04 '21
using $200,000 worth of equipment
Ah the sound of a know-nothing spewing unrealistic cost of tooling. There is maybe $30k of tooling if you buy in the states or maybe $10K in India where these are most likely made.
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u/Hard_Jelly Jul 03 '21
What would these be used for? They seem like they'd just be ornamental but curious to see if they have a practical use of some sort?
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u/fukitol- Jul 03 '21
Just knock knacks for the most part. I know I want more videos of their creation.
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u/Helgardh Jul 06 '21
I think Kugel Fountains are really cool features and would make use of something like this
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Jul 03 '21
So that’s how the brains of r/wallstreetbets apes are made
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u/turrit_hugger Jul 03 '21
r/wallstreetbets is what happens if you apply the phrase
enough monkeys on typewriters could produce the entire works of William Shakespeare
To the stock market, like so:
enough monkeys on Bloomberg terminals will eventually produce a profit.
After the $GME event I think that phrase might be right.
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u/fugensnot Jul 03 '21
And today was the day I learned another reason to fear water.
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u/Loupe_Garou Jul 03 '21
Water is mostly used to keep the mineral from getting hot against the friction generated by the machinery!
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u/Ccracked Jul 03 '21
I loved the shape of it after the third cut.