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lens...@hotmail.com

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Mar 8, 2005, 6:18:31 PM3/8/05
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I know this is a serious longshot but what the heck. e-mail me with
price. I thought there were some plans to make some of these???
~eric

Clay Cowgill

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Mar 8, 2005, 8:02:44 PM3/8/05
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<lens...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I know this is a serious longshot but what the heck. e-mail me with
> price. I thought there were some plans to make some of these???

A while back someone (Todd?) came across a bunch of NOS ones. I suspect a
lot of I,Robot owners grabbed them then which probably reduced the demand
for any repros. (I know I tried to pick up two, but only managed to get one
so I don't have a spare to offer you...)

-Clay


big dog

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Mar 8, 2005, 8:23:54 PM3/8/05
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Hi,

I dont recall the spares, must have been 3-4 years? This is a project
that needs doing badly, all the ones I have seen are cracked or will crack.

Mark Capps

lens...@hotmail.com

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Mar 8, 2005, 8:30:15 PM3/8/05
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Yeah, the one I have looks like it had sun damage then cracked.

~eric

Derek Litton

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Mar 8, 2005, 8:41:41 PM3/8/05
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Hey Clay, please email me so we can finish our unfinished business.

Thanks,
Derek

Defender

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Mar 9, 2005, 7:43:49 AM3/9/05
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Place me on that list.. I will buy one when they are done..

Darryl Pike

rgvac...@mgcap.com

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Mar 9, 2005, 12:41:11 PM3/9/05
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Scott has the design docs for the plastic panel. If someone with some
platic production facilities wants to repro it, you should be all set
(I certainly don't).


tm

Clay Cowgill

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Mar 10, 2005, 2:11:41 PM3/10/05
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"big dog" <catf...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I dont recall the spares, must have been 3-4 years? This is a project
> that needs doing badly, all the ones I have seen are cracked or will
crack.

I guess it could have been! I recall there was 20 of them, and I requested
two, but I was last in line and one turned out to be broken so I only got
one. I could swear it was Todd @ TNT... Man, that's going to bug me now...
When was that...

-Clay


lens...@hotmail.com

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Mar 10, 2005, 2:05:38 PM3/10/05
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It would be great if this gets done. I'd honestly rather have a new one
then some old crap one that's going to crack later on. I would think
there is someone out there that can help out if it were to their
advantage. :)
~eric

Hans O

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Mar 13, 2005, 10:19:47 AM3/13/05
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Machined plastic or injection molded plastic?
Hans O

Steve Prendergast

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Mar 13, 2005, 11:34:39 AM3/13/05
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Has anyone approached Tom Wible? He makes alot of plastic bits and might be
able to do this..???

--
-Steve P.


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Bret Pehrson

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Mar 14, 2005, 7:55:16 PM3/14/05
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Hans O wrote:
> Machined plastic or injection molded plastic?
> Hans O

I suspect (from a casual observation of mine) that it was originally vacuum
formed, which fortunately is the least inexpensive of the three.

Regardless of the method, they are going to have to be one-offs to have any
chance of success which directly translates to expensive.

rgvac...@mgcap.com

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Mar 15, 2005, 2:44:51 PM3/15/05
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Bret,

I suspect you could sell a control panel to almost every I, Robot
owner. Perhaps 50-75 total which would be a decent production run. The
setup charges would be rough though...

tm

Bret Pehrson

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Mar 15, 2005, 2:58:36 PM3/15/05
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Last time I checked into vacuum molding (10+ yrs. ago), setup/tooling was
around 5k for a small project. Presuming that the cost is the same, that is
$75-100 per part just for setup, add the production cost on top of that. Seems
like it would be $150 ea.

If there were enough interest, I could look into it further, although I think
that it will only be a possibility if it were done that had ready access to
vacuum molding (at a reduced rate).

How many takers at $150 ea.?

rgvac...@mgcap.com

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Mar 15, 2005, 3:11:48 PM3/15/05
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Exactly why this needs to be done by someone with vacuum molding
equipment/experience. Setup charges would be arbitrary at that point.
Or close to it.

Mark Davidson, are you listening??? :)

tm

Zimmer

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Mar 15, 2005, 4:19:33 PM3/15/05
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i dont have an i, robot but i thought this link might help y'all out.
this site is a great resource for pinball collectors and has a pretty
cool homemade vacuum forming guide. the control panel plastic is
pretty basic so this might work.

http://www.marvin3m.com/vacuum/index.htm

lens...@hotmail.com

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Mar 17, 2005, 7:51:20 PM3/17/05
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By now with modern advances I would think it's more like $1500 but I
would pay $200 for one of these new. I might just make one out of
fiberglass and texture it just like the original since it seem this
will never happen anyway.

~eric

lens...@hotmail.com

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Mar 29, 2005, 8:48:43 PM3/29/05
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Still want one of these and a power supply. :(
~eric

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