I just spoke to the recast guy again,
if we can get 100 orders,
he should be able to make it US$10 per pair.
Understandable, since this is labour intensive
and he feels he should be compensated for his labour.
I'm proposing anyone interested to order them in multiples of ten.
That means 10, 20 or 30 etc
Also note that the hands will be made and shipped from Singapore,
where I live.
So now, anyone interested?
Hi Jin,Unfortunately, Singapore is one of the top ten most expensive cities to live in.
Consequently, Injection molding ABS is not going to be cheap like in China.
The costs of mold fabrication is easily 5 figures (even though it looks simple)
and the fact is most injection molding plants will ignore us
if we told them we wanted any run less than 10,000 units.
Lots of money involved. And storage space for unwanted stock.
Oh, I happen to major in Materials Engineering.Resin recasts of this particular model of hands should work.
I've spent many nights studying them and reading up on
the material properties of most resin materials.
Unless there's any other viable (aka cheap) option, this could well be the only way.
Of course, the trade off is the brittle-ness. (Low fracture strength)
I tried many times contacting Bandai's spare parts dept.
They don't sell to any non-Japanese address.
Shipping proxies charge too much to make it worth while.
The bandits.
I need somewhere like 20 pairs myself to switch out the hands
on my binaltechs and alternators.
The original thread is here.
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-gen...oss-1-48-a.html