Little new tooling will be involved given the low production numbers. Most of the tooling is now producing stamped parts for us from various suppliers such as EMS,Mar-K, Chevs of the 40s,and others. It takes real big number to amortize the cost of a large male-female and progressive die. There is also the drop hammer or large press to set up and run. These guys are going to contract for parts from the current die owners/suppliers who are more than content to further cost-out the dies. All new tooling with those low productions would equal a 400 grand per unit at least. Can we say compound curve?? The costs are big. Example: 1 jet nozzle nacelle from die: 27,000 bux, or 100 ea at 280.00 ea. I just wonder if they will let a guy order with no drive train. Jon
