If someone wanted to start off slow, they could make aftermarket
parts... like motor drive covers.
Paul
At 08:20 PM 11/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
>That would be an awesome idea, but it would be a pipe
>dream unless we had Bill Gates in disguise on the
>list. I am pretty sure Olympus Optical Co. would be
>asking for <1,000,000 dollars and would insist on
>quality control or something. HOWEVER, if Olympus ever
>dropped the OM line they might be willing to sell for
>la lot less. As long as Olympus continues to sell the
>OM system as new the price would be exorbitant. In any
>case to start this up it would definitely take <10,000
>to start production in any real volume.
>
>Mark Lloyd
>
>--- Tom Scales <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The comment earlier about the K-1000 being made in
>> China made me wonder.
>>
>> Do you think Olympus would consider selling the
>> tooling, or at least
>> licensing the designs for the things they outsource?
>>
>> Do we, as a list, have enough money to make the
>> purchase?
>>
>> Could it be viable?
>>
>> Who wants to approach them.
>>
>> Tom
>
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