bryan_machine
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 16, 2006
- Location
- Near Seattle
Some folks I've been helping are applying for a grant soon (they're part of a university lab.) Their device is a covid-19 test device, a quite inexpensive one. One component of it is an aluminum heat block - I've made about a dozen of these for them. These are to be machined from solid, 6061-T6.
The grant request for proposal is asking for 10,000 units of their machine, and thus 10,000 units of the component in the attached drawing. I'm a protoypes/experiments for self and friends guy, NOT a "make 10,000 of these" sort of operation. But a number of you lot ARE.
This is NOT an RFQ - that can't happen until they get the grant. What I am asking for is a ballpark number per unit, in quantity 10K (really), to be starting after the grant is issued (presumably soon), and ready for "the fall" which I gather means september.
Ballpark costs for that kind of volume? (The point being to ask for enough money in the grant to actually buy the parts.)
If you think you have some cost advantage in making such parts you don't want to reveal, feel free to PM me.
Here's a tiny thumbnail to get under the size limit (very hard to get it down to size for some reason):
And here's a link to a normal .pdf you can actually see:
http://bryanwi.com/WebPix/heatingblockdrawing.pdf
The grant request for proposal is asking for 10,000 units of their machine, and thus 10,000 units of the component in the attached drawing. I'm a protoypes/experiments for self and friends guy, NOT a "make 10,000 of these" sort of operation. But a number of you lot ARE.
This is NOT an RFQ - that can't happen until they get the grant. What I am asking for is a ballpark number per unit, in quantity 10K (really), to be starting after the grant is issued (presumably soon), and ready for "the fall" which I gather means september.
Ballpark costs for that kind of volume? (The point being to ask for enough money in the grant to actually buy the parts.)
If you think you have some cost advantage in making such parts you don't want to reveal, feel free to PM me.
Here's a tiny thumbnail to get under the size limit (very hard to get it down to size for some reason):
And here's a link to a normal .pdf you can actually see:
http://bryanwi.com/WebPix/heatingblockdrawing.pdf