Thats not true nor logical. You re-coup money in the shavings. You don't profit from it. Otherwise why bother? Just take your new the brass stock straight to the recycling depot and generate a profit???
Roland 2010/1/1 Martin Pinkston <martinpinks...@gmail.com> > Happy New Year to all, > I was once told that the actual money being made in the manufacturing of > those little brass fittings is not so much in the fittings themselves as it > is in brass scrap being resold as scrap. If you pay much attention to the > amount of material left in the wall thickness of the fitting, you will > notice that it is minimal. As much material is being removed as possible. > The scrap is where the real money is being made. > As for the fittings being made on the spot. Having various sizes of brass > hex is fine as long as the fitting is not a 90 degree or even a 45 degree > bent fitting. > Most all those fittings are made from a casting, not bar stock. > > That's all I got. > Carry on as you were. > Martin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users