I was at the local hardware store buying brass fittings, of course I had to buy three fittings each to get a connector with the two ends that I needed. I got to shooting the breeze with the counter person and the conversation wandered a bit but an idea came to mind.
I wonder if it would be commercially viable to have an small EMC2 CNC machine setup which would use hex and round stock to make standard fittings from a customer request, very much like a key machine. It may be possible to fit the machine in the same space that would be taken up by a decently stocked shelf. No matter what fitting was needed, as long as the machine had brass rod, the fitting would be in stock. The chips could be recycled and send back as new hex or rounds. I think the major issue would be to set up the software so that a typical sales person could handle the customer request and monitor the machine. With EMC2's tapered threading a steel pipe machine could be set up too. Again the software would need to properly prompt a sales person to load the machine and check the pipe for proper pipe placement and size. If you wanted to get fancy and had the space, the pipe machine could have an auto loader with 20 meter lengths of pipe which could be threaded and cut to a customer's cut list. Anyone have thoughts on using an application specific EMC2 in a retail setting? -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
