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Old 08-17-2017, 11:48 AM  
Sunny Day
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Originally Posted by Busty2 View Post
I don't agree with this statement as people like Lamborghini use high tech carbon fiber materials that are cured under vacuum in an autoclave, they can do as few as one part or a thousand parts at one time. You mix just enough resin for your needs, all of the current resins have a 6 month shelf life as a minimum.

If Delorean gave me an STL file i could carve a plug for this vehicle in less than 400 hours on my CNC machines and spray primer, polish and produce molds in a further 8 weeks ready for production. The real skill and what takes time and money is the design and model testing, months or years are spent proving theorys.
Lamborghini is not a startup and has capital. These are underfunded startups. Even just building the engines, they have to batch produce to gain economy of scale. A lot of their initial capital was producing the prototype.

We had that in the hologram company. One hologram costs $5,000. The next 10,000 we'll sell you for a penny apiece. Setup costs for the plate and production run.
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