New Material Costs
Commenters debate the high expense of a novel material's ingredients like titanium, platinum, and others compared to stainless steel or plastics, questioning its manufacturing costs and economic feasibility for practical use.
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This material won't ever be cheap - all 3 ingredients cost a lot more than stainless steel.
Could they use a cheaper material than steel?
How expensive would a solid piece of metal that size be?
so how expensive would this material be to make? i’ve seen everyone say potential uses but i just wanna know if it’s economically feasible
Still sounds like tons of reasons to have high final cost, compared to cheaper metals.
Stainless steel is ~5x the cost.
what's the manufacturing cost as compared to plastic?
Completely unrealistic… more constructive to recommend melting them down and re-casting/machining =)
The pricing is pretty ridiculous from what I've just seen. That's a lot of money when you can just put it on metal yourself.
Sounds promising, but titanium ain't cheap.