A good steel mold can make .5 to 1M pieces before it is shot many times.
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From: can...@believewireless.net
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 10:23 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Locating Cambium's Chinese plastics supplier (e501s
bracket mass-purchase for quick-reinstall event Wi-Fi )
The mold is owned by Cambium, not the supplier. It's not like this is
a generic, off the shelf piece. It's also
possible that multiple parts of the design are made in a single mold.
Getting the mold made is the most
expensive part of the process. After that, each part is probably
<$0.50. If I was Cambium, I'd be super
pissed if they allowed someone else to use my mold. Each mold only has
so many uses before it has
to be replaced. In a steel mold, that is a lot of pieces, but still,
you'd be costing Cambium money.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 12:11 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote:
I have 3D printed parts for aircraft wings. Totally depends on the
filament and settings of the printer.
From: Colin Stanners
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 9:34 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Cc: Chuck McCown
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Locating Cambium's Chinese plastics supplier (e501s
bracket mass-purchase for quick-reinstall event Wi-Fi )
As these need to hold up $500 APs and survive year-round outdoors, I
wouldn't trust 3d-printed plastics.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 10:19 AM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com>
wrote:
3d printing?
From: Colin Stanners
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 9:12 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: [AFMUG] Locating Cambium's Chinese plastics supplier (e501s
bracket mass-purchase for quick-reinstall event Wi-Fi )
Hi AFMUG, a rare request here.
I'm looking to purchase a large number of Cambium's e501s brackets, which
they don't sell individually (reasonable enough due to low demand).
A while ago on one of our packages from (passed through) Cambium, I
noticed the name of a Chinese supplier that I didn't recognize. I visited
their website and they seemed to be Cambium's plastics supplier. But I
didn't consider that information worth saving. Has anyone noticed that
name so that I can attempt to buy a number of brackets directly, if they
are allowed to sell them?
Reasoning: I'm trying to put together a "super-fast event Wi-Fi
re-deployment" design. Basically, at the many locations where we offer
Wi-Fi once or twice a year, we'd have existing e501S slide-on mounts,
also terminated RJ45 ends with the cable glands in a tough plastic bag
ziptied to the tower. All events would have the routers/PoE switches left
onside with a standardized IP/VLAN/etc setup. The idea is that we can
tell the techs "grab 15 event APs", which don't need to be programmed by
the office as they have a standard config, and after climb the techs
spend <1min per AP to slide on and plug in. So with these and other
optimizations, an event of e.g. 5 sites x 3 APs per site can be fully
re-deployed in 1-2hours, instead of the 1-2 days that we normally spend
organizing, programming, attaching mounts, cabling, etc.
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