Members guitarNed Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 I *am* talking about a PLEK machine itself, rather than a PLEK job. A friend of mine was thinking of buying one as an investment -- IOW, to actually do PLEK jobs for others. In addition to cost, I was also wondering whether the machinery or equipment could be made transportable -- could it be packed into a van or small truck? The idea was to travel to guitar shops or guitar shows, and do PLEK jobs on the spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArKay Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 They should know. post@plek.de Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarNed Posted July 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 They should know. post@plek.de Ha! A German company! Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArKay Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 Yes, vee mayk zems! They have a homepage, too (http://www.plek.com), but as you will see it is currently down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArKay Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 FWIW, here's what the beast looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarNed Posted July 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 Day-yum. That is a good looking machine. (Ned wrestles with PLEK gas. Ned comes to his senses. It would make no sense for Ned *and* his friend to each own PLEK machines!) I see it fitting into a camper-van in a pinch. 5th wheel travel trailer or smallish RV easy as pie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted July 30, 2007 Moderators Share Posted July 30, 2007 I *am* talking about a PLEK machine itself, rather than a PLEK job. A friend of mine was thinking of buying one as an investment -- IOW, to actually do PLEK jobs for others. In addition to cost, I was also wondering whether the machinery or equipment could be made transportable -- could it be packed into a van or small truck? The idea was to travel to guitar shops or guitar shows, and do PLEK jobs on the spot. I would seriously think transporting that sort of equipment in a van would be the quickest way to totally fuck it. No piece of laser equipment would be happy being transported and I would imagine the setup of the machine would be highly specialist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArKay Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 I can see that, too, yup. Interesting business idea, best of luck to him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarNed Posted July 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 I would seriously think transporting that sort of equipment in a van would be the quickest way to totally fuck it. No piece of laser equipment would be happy being transported and I would imagine the setup of the machine would be highly specialist.Of course, this will be a priority consideration. Unless the PLEK people say it can be subjected to the stress of being transported, I'm sure my friend would not plan to drive it around. It was a question we had, not a conclusion we'd reached. OTOH, some laser equipment is surprisingly sturdy. After all, there are laser-guided bombs, DVD players made for automobiles, and so forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted July 30, 2007 Moderators Share Posted July 30, 2007 OTOH, some laser equipment is surprisingly sturdy. After all, there are laser-guided bombs, DVD players made for automobiles, and so forth. None of those are meant to work at 0.01mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarNed Posted July 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 None of those are meant to work at 0.01mmA DVD player doesn't work to a tolerance of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted July 30, 2007 Moderators Share Posted July 30, 2007 A DVD player doesn't work to a tolerance of Not over 630mm it doesn't, it also has an alogorithm to extrapolate whats gone before and what's coming ahead. The two machines are not comparable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarNed Posted July 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 A nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter. One millimeter contains 1,000,000 (one million, or one thousand thousand) nanometers. So 630 nm is less than one thousandth of a millimeter. That is 10 times .01 millimeters. I'm just sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArKay Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 You have a pretty good grasp of the metric concept Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarNed Posted July 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ged LST Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 You have a pretty good grasp of the metric concept - Ged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted July 30, 2007 Moderators Share Posted July 30, 2007 You have a pretty good grasp of the metric concept It's just a shame he didn't spot the 630 mm, not 630nm:p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarNed Posted July 30, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 It's just a shame he didn't spot the 630 mm, not 630nm:pYeah, I feel bad about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members warriorpoet Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 Yeah, I feel bad about that. Troll! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Attila Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 I would seriously think transporting that sort of equipment in a van would be the quickest way to totally fuck it. No piece of laser equipment would be happy being transported and I would imagine the setup of the machine would be highly specialist. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Highway_61 Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 I love it when the discourse rises to this level. Very impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Professor Tom Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 Not wishing to cast doubts on this enterprise but don't you need a substantial ammount of training to operate one of these machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted July 30, 2007 Moderators Share Posted July 30, 2007 Not wishing to cast doubts on this enterprise but don't you need a substantial ammount of training to operate one of these machines. Nah, you just sling it in the back of a Transit and sit in a layby near a kebab van. The guy who fries the chips usually is a PLEK expert:thu: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BrokenRomeo Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 I think they are in the 150-250K range, so you will need to do a lot of jobs to justify the cost and get into the black... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Samnite Posted July 30, 2007 Members Share Posted July 30, 2007 What, uh, what the devil does it do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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