Financial interest makes sense if you start a company and want to make money, if i would have the intension to start a business selling replacements for obsolete parts than for sure i would go broke after not even a year !
If you do something commercially you have to calculate your costs and then make a weight of what price the market supports, you have to put everything in the equation to make a profit which you have to make in order to make ends meet !
Things are not so if you just do something on the side for fun, normally you have a job that pays the bills, if you have a shop in the backyard or house than normally its paid for and the power and water bill are gonna get paid anyway, you dont have any employees and normally you already bought the machines and tools because you wanted to have them for a hobby, you also dont have the latest and greatest CNC controlled machines and a $100000 loan on your back which you needed to buy them !
Time is not an issue in a hobby shop , whether it takes you 10minutes to make a gear or 1hr, who cares you are not paying anyone to do it !
As long as you are doing it for fun its ok, lets see what else would i do if i wouldnt dabble around on machines or in my electronics lab ? probably sitting somewhere on a lake fishing or watching TV - if you want to put economics to it then you might not want to go fishing or watch tv either - how many $$$ you spend on fishing gear and licence ? then you sit around for hours on a lake to catch some fish that if you put economics to it you could have bought cheaper at a local market ! watching TV all you do is use electricity and spend a boatload on a new HDTV all without getting anything in return but entertainment - well entertainment for some people is to fix a old piece of equipment the main difference is that they are learning something as a side effect while the TV junkies only getting brain fried !
J Forster <jfor@...> wrote:
True, within limits. There is a big difference between working on
something with real upside potential and supporting something an
insrument which is reaching the end of it's service life. The former
makes financial sense, the latter does not. That does not mean it's not
worth doing, but just not for financial reasons. I'm specifically
thinking of the Tek 547 HV Transformer and the 8640 gears.
Best,
-John
microwaveengineer1968 wrote:
One thing that comes up more and more often from people on this
newsgroup is the .... im not doing anything unlessi get paid for
it ! dont get me wrong i like money as much as anyone else and im not
this well off that i dont need any income but lets reflect and think
about it for a second.... [snip]
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