Tony,
Thanks for the vote of confidence but as others have remarked, it's more
effective to find a company that already has the required machinery, and
then give them enough business that you get a preferred rate. Besides, I
don't have the money or the time to pursue such a venture. Maybe if I
won the lottery...
Reproducing (or producing) any part that has a fairly low expected total
volume, such as the Tiger air cleaner, or a particular manifold, is
always going to be expensive because the cost of design and tooling ends
up being amortized over a very small number of end parts. The other
issue is that each different part requires a different manufacturing
process, so even if you can use a universal scanner to produce a
computer model, you'll need access to a die stamping machine, or
aluminum casting technology, or cast-iron manufacturing capability, to
actually make the end product. And to produce parts that others will
want to buy, you need to be good at each of those things.
Cheers,
Theo
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