railflyermodel
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Guys,
A few things like the meter base (3 wire) and additional odds and ends increased the wiring costs but after today, everything is covered.
Now its on to design fees for the electronics ($3000 pays up the balance and gets prototypes in hand for testing), and we need two sets of inserts to cover the two initial hood door releases ($1300).
With this covered, we can restart tooling on-site when the electrical work is done. After a few months of up and down time with the CNC but having it never really work right, we found voltage fluctuations during a service call in January. This caused crashes on the tool box, burned out motors and PCB's.
I got a bunch of stuff done with Luigi on Sunday, it is going slower than expected as we had to make a shopping trip but yesterday I ran some conduit on my own.
EMD/GMDD Dash 2 Hood Doors
GMDD CN/CP Hood Doors
Starting with the doors because (1) we're contracting out the initial mould design work and we need something easy to learn with. (2) all of the cutters needed are already here so we start machining without delays. (3) they are needed in the full kits and it should go quickly so we can start more complex stuff faster.
The next two moulds for doors will include EMD variations such as the GP39-2 phases, early Dash 2 (the first group of GP38-2's had a very minor variation in the door frame overlap) and then the EMD/GMDD GPSD38/39/40/45 doors.
So at this point, the faster we get the sales picked up, the faster we can get the running drive on the rails and tooling restarted.
The shop is completely torn up right now, I have been packaging what I can get to but it will be another two weeks before things are reorganized.
Christopher Howard, Railflyer Model Prototypes Inc.
www.railflyermodel.com
A few things like the meter base (3 wire) and additional odds and ends increased the wiring costs but after today, everything is covered.
Now its on to design fees for the electronics ($3000 pays up the balance and gets prototypes in hand for testing), and we need two sets of inserts to cover the two initial hood door releases ($1300).
With this covered, we can restart tooling on-site when the electrical work is done. After a few months of up and down time with the CNC but having it never really work right, we found voltage fluctuations during a service call in January. This caused crashes on the tool box, burned out motors and PCB's.
I got a bunch of stuff done with Luigi on Sunday, it is going slower than expected as we had to make a shopping trip but yesterday I ran some conduit on my own.
EMD/GMDD Dash 2 Hood Doors
GMDD CN/CP Hood Doors
Starting with the doors because (1) we're contracting out the initial mould design work and we need something easy to learn with. (2) all of the cutters needed are already here so we start machining without delays. (3) they are needed in the full kits and it should go quickly so we can start more complex stuff faster.
The next two moulds for doors will include EMD variations such as the GP39-2 phases, early Dash 2 (the first group of GP38-2's had a very minor variation in the door frame overlap) and then the EMD/GMDD GPSD38/39/40/45 doors.
So at this point, the faster we get the sales picked up, the faster we can get the running drive on the rails and tooling restarted.
The shop is completely torn up right now, I have been packaging what I can get to but it will be another two weeks before things are reorganized.
Christopher Howard, Railflyer Model Prototypes Inc.
www.railflyermodel.com