Thanks Art,
that is really a good explanation.
Thank you for all you do for the indoor community.
Edmund
*Edmund Liem*
tmj-sleep.ca
aacpcanada.org
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:40 PM, upwind120_at_gmail.com [Indoor_Construction] <
Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Edmund, two things....
>
> The self-subtraction: I built one that does that several years ago. The
> cost of the components was considerable, it was big and bulky, and the
> micro soldering of the circuitry was a killer. Even then, the performance
> was iffy. When I asked myself why I even fooled with the idea, the answer
> was that Wilder's winder presented that way, so why shouldn't mine? The
> only real advantage to it would be if the crank handle slipped out of your
> hand and you recaptured it, the remaining count would be correct, and you
> wouldn't have to start over from zero. People tend not to let that happen,
> though. And for those who wind to "X", zero the counter and wind "Y" back
> off (which is most people), it would no longer be possible.
>
> The second thing...I can't build them for $130 any more. Costs on
> everything have gone up over the last 7 years, and the labor time necessary
> for the improvements made outstrips the time saved by the jigs and fixtures
> I've built to cut the time. I'm trying to hold the labor cost to half the
> Florida minimum hourly wage, which ain't generous. You got the last $130
> one before I did the cost assessment. Now they're $150 pp.
> If the twenty bucks kills them, then they're dead. What can I do?
>
> Art.
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