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Minelab detectors made in Asia?
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<blockquote data-quote="condor22" data-source="post: 96378" data-attributes="member: 1932"><p>Most of my design work was mechanical, so from that perspective; (and I am about 25yrs out of touch on plastics, but)</p><p></p><p>A plastic injection moulding die to make 1 half of the SDC cover could cost upwards of 1/2 a million $. There are other plastic components.</p><p>This cost is annotated across the expected volume of sales per year over what is believed to be the life expectancy of the product. ie 1/2 a million sales = $1 each or 100,000 products = $5 each. Then there is the annotation of the plastic injection machine which could be 10s of millions $.</p><p></p><p>That is only 2 items of costing over many items in a detector. It can soon add up and, as said, research, development, testing, redesign, retesting, manufacture, packaging, warehousing, transport, marketing etc etc.</p><p></p><p>If I paid $100 for a metal detector, I might well be buying an ornament...........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="condor22, post: 96378, member: 1932"] Most of my design work was mechanical, so from that perspective; (and I am about 25yrs out of touch on plastics, but) A plastic injection moulding die to make 1 half of the SDC cover could cost upwards of 1/2 a million $. There are other plastic components. This cost is annotated across the expected volume of sales per year over what is believed to be the life expectancy of the product. ie 1/2 a million sales = $1 each or 100,000 products = $5 each. Then there is the annotation of the plastic injection machine which could be 10s of millions $. That is only 2 items of costing over many items in a detector. It can soon add up and, as said, research, development, testing, redesign, retesting, manufacture, packaging, warehousing, transport, marketing etc etc. If I paid $100 for a metal detector, I might well be buying an ornament........... [/QUOTE]
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