Gene, I think that you and perhaps others are missing a point that is
salient to the argument that Jim has made several times. He does not
*sell* injection molds. He *uses* injection molds which he had to
purchase. Those are capital equipments used in his business to make the
products that he sells.
Injection molds make products which are a fixed size. If he has to
resize his product, he will have to scrap his injection molds and buy
new ones. Imagine that you are in the business of making metal bolts and
have just purchased machines that make threads to ifp standards; they
cannot make metric standard threads. Soft converting the dimensions of
your ifp-threaded fasteners is futile if they won't fit anyone's
equipments, since they are non-standard. If the government mandates
require the use of metric fasteners (or at least destroy the market for
non-metric fasteners), what can you do? Everybody in the country is in
the same boat and so the market for a machine that produces an
unsaleable product is essentially worthless. Who would buy your
now-worthless machines? Myanmar? Liberia?
Please correct me if I am wrong, Jim.
Jim
Gene Mechtly wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jim Elwell wrote:
> >
> > ... if, ten years ago ...Congress had passed a law mandating metric-only
> > products ... it would have destroyed the value of several injection
> > molds worth over $200,000...
> *
> How is that, Jim?
>
> Do you advertise and sell injection molds to the public at large?
....
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