For my personal curiosity how much is the retail on a machine like that, plus how much for training, plus how many hours of training at your salary (the owner of the lab i presume) plus how many hour it will take to mill 1 bar DIVIDED by how many bar you do again per month?
It a cool toy to have I can agree, but how can you compete with big player like US, Nobel, 3i, Dentsply? By selling bar around 799$ so that mean LOW profit? that mean you will what take 10 years to pay back your machine IF it still run in 10 years?
I mean, you would tell me abutment, crown and bridge i could understand,
BAR? All lab that went into making their own bar have trouble, either money or machine wise, all of them have to sell their bar to other lab to TRY to make profit out of their machine and they do not succeed, even glidewell is not making real money with implant bar.
A real machine do to all bars is around 500K plus training plus installation, plus X-Y-Z.
What gonna happen the day your spindle will need to be replace and parts will take 1-2 week to get there plus time to replace and re-calibrate? Hope you already have bought a second machine in case.
I don't want to be a dream killer, but I just don't understand why so much lab owner want to mill their bar to that point of loosing thousand of $$ when they could outsource.
You want cheap bar : there is many solution out there from 499 to 800$
You want quality : there is many solution out there from 800-1500$
You outsource 1 bar per year, you make profit
You outsource 200 bars per year, you make more profit
ZERO trouble, always perfectly cheap or high-end (depend of provider obviously)
I mean, i don't get it.
What is the real motivation ?
Don't say profit : there none to be done here
Passion? Maybe okay,
Quality : no way, not with that machine
Turn-around time : ****, you really need a bar in 48 hour? You sure after the patient waited 6 month for is implant to heal it cannot wait 5-7 workings days ? Seriously?
Just because your are rich and want to have fun : maybe okay i get it.
Service ? Have you tried us?
To OP : you don't have to answer, just think about it, for all other, if you have a suggestion to my question, feel free to tell me, I am lost again.
Best regards