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There is another green-metal that does not require Argon.
You could plan on an extended trip at midwinter, our lab is only 2.5 hours from Chicago if you left on tuesday or wednesday after you'd have a chance to come down and work with the 450i for real, not just a demo.Hey REJ wanna trade my two Origin Machines for your 450i lol. Man I can't wait to get my hands on one. Have to wait until next year though. Maybe I'll take a trip to the Midwinter to take a peek at them.
I wonder if anyone has thought about costs of milling "soft" vs. "hard" CoCr (I am thinking also of investment costs in larger vs. smaller milling units)
I had that discussion with Mr Stark and he and I felt it is similar to the open vs closed milling debate. If one saves a bit on hardware but loses on consumable cost it never makes sense. IMHO the reason I spend on hardware is to lower recurring costs and amortize out the cost on it for tax which I can't on high material costs. Assuming that green state material costs more than full chrome cobalt, why not invest the money in the mill rather than the special over or oven capacity. Also I always look at it as a cost per unit equation as we do really significant volumes of work with the machine cost factored in, with tools etc. I am really surprised by the tool life on the cocr in the 450i. It is as many units as our wieland mini gets for zirconia but the tools are less for the big 6mm shank than the little 3mm guys, something is off.
You could plan on an extended trip at midwinter, our lab is only 2.5 hours from Chicago if you left on tuesday or wednesday after you'd have a chance to come down and work with the 450i for real, not just a demo.
Ryan, are you accepting files for Emax CAD now? I would like to send you one of my designs to check it out off of the 240 if possible?
Jason
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