Colored cases, etc - Was Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

Steven ** montgoss+openmokocommunity at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 18:02:21 CEST 2008


For the one off, you could check out http://www.emachineshop.com
They do injection molding of various plastics in "many" colors.

I'm not sure if you could make a profit by having them make a ton of
cases and then reselling them or not.

-Steven

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Hugo Mills <hugo-om at carfax.org.uk> wrote:
>    Maybe there's someone out there with the know-how to make blank
>  cases based on the published OM designs? I'd guess it's a matter of
>  making suitable injection-moulded components -- front and back -- and
>  then either ringing the changes with the plastic colour used, or just
>  selling white ones that can then be painted and lacquered.  I have no
>  idea of the economics of injection moulding, though.
>
>    Hugo.




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