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Old Aug 23, 2018 | 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by charlie luciano


exactly that mate, the tooling costs of reproduction parts is very expensive. I shopped around to get my moulds made for saph jack covers which cost me a few grand, one company wanted 20 grand to make the moulds, suffice to say I continued looking around. When I first started selling them I wanted to do them fairly cheap but a well known trader around the ford scene said to me “no come in high to recoup your production costs and there is room further down the line to adjust the price” I’m glad I listened to him, I have got my mind set of other products and the next project the tooling will cost me 5 grand, that’s a fair bit of money and a calculated risk, I’d have to sell a fair few of them before I’d start making any profit.
Making injection mould tools is a labour intensive and costly process, I considered making a tool at work for Escort Cosworth wheel centre caps as the used prices are crazy.

They would be really tricky to make in the same way Ford did and I doubt I would get close to breaking even with such a small market !
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