so Lennox calls me today to ask me if I have any questions about their products. I ask if they sell Bandsaw blades in 59″ lengths. He says yes, they can weld them together with a $60,000 (yes sixty thousand dollar) German welder, the best they can buy.
Do they seriously have a $60,000 BSB welder and why would they ever spend so much?
I’m just sayin’
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Ask how many blades they can measure, cut, braze, and package in an hour with that welder.
Then you'll have the answer.
I have a $2K tablesaw. A friend has one he got used for $26K. Speed, accuracy, capacity, production. I putter, comparitively. He runs an 8000sf shop.
I have no idea what welders cost, but its not hard to imagine. Go price a Holz-Her Kundig sander and compare it to a PC.
Real trucks dont have sparkplugs
Accuracy. The bane of any serious bandsaw blade user is a bad weld.
As someone who works in supporting Manufacturing, equipment that can run and do a task accurately and with reppetition for long periods of time without breaking all the time, you have to pay for that. I'd bet its Computer driven and has controls to help it do that weld consistently. I've supported equipment that it's only job was to make a 4" round plastic disk about the size of a hocky puck of melted plastic and it was a multimillon dollar piece of equipment. Not Shocked at 60k. With an estimated life of maybe 5 years (my guess), that's 12k a year. I wonder how many blades it pops out a day!.
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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