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I was looking at tripods the other day and saw a Manfrotto 055 carbon fibre (worth around $400-$500) for $6000+.
At work, one of our turbo pumps blew a cooling fan the other day. These are $8000 high vacuum pumps. Nonetheless the cooling fan is just a 24V dc 60mm computer cooling type fan.
I got a quote from the supplier for the OEM part. They wanted $720 for it. I actually asked him if it had solid gold fan blades.
In the end I ordered an identical fan from Element 14 for $26 instead.
The replaceable valve seats on our vacuum valves are made of solid gold - but only about $25 worth. Cost of part - $520. I recycle the gold, cast it into small round bars and then get our workshop to machine our own. Cost about $50 ea inc labour.
Joe
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