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Old 07-11-2021, 08:04 PM   #11
v8fordman
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Default Re: KR Wilson spring spreader

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Originally Posted by Kube View Post
As a (retired) tool maker, I can tell you to make one of that piece would take a few hours at most. Not complicated whatsoever.
Methinks the shop that didn't want to do simply didn't want to do it.
My guy has made many complicated dies and is quiet accomplished as a retired old school tool and die maker who says it can't be made in a few hours. You might be surprised at some of the household items that you have that he made the dies for...back in the day. He has never shied away from anything I have asked him to do, so your assumption that he "simply didn't want to do it" is a false assumption. It's a function of cost versus return on investment. He made several dies for me to make the parts I made for the late Roy Nacewicz.

Now that you have stated you can do one in a "few hours", the cost factor just went down. I'll bet we can sell a few and I see someone else has already said he would take one. I bet there are more out there. How about it?
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