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That was a joke, ATD, really, I swear....I'm not in the market, but I'd love to see any in process pics you have, if you would. I like to see that kind of stuff. :wink:
In the end though, you have your plates, and that's what matters.
If you really stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, you should be able to figure out how to get the rim/plate combo to my door for less than $200, otherwise you probably only stayed at a Motel 6.
What kind of precision are we talking here? Is .0006 to .0010 good enough with no Laser scale, on a multi axis machine? Come on, we're talking about a wheel center here, not parts for the space shuttle, but hats off to the OP for getting it done.
But when it's a laser job, it's programmed once, for one plate, then as many plates pasted on a sheet of steel as possible. You'd still have the chamfering to do, but it would be a viable way to lessen costs in the future. You'd be hard pressed to get low costs on intial development of anything.