Originally Posted by
Raxel
Every engineering student and his dog now have access to CAD, FEA and CNC machines. Automatic welding machines have been around for 20 years..
Oh really? Obviously you missed out that we were compairing the early days of the Brompton between 1976 and the early 1990ies with the situation today. To make it explicit for you: This was more than 20 years ago - and that was exactly why I ways outlining that fact: It was a totally different situation back then when the Brompton was invented.
Originally Posted by
Raxel
I don't understand why people thinks only Peter (and nobody else) has some magic pixie dust that can lower the production cost tremendously. If he can do something right now, other would have done it years ago.
Suprisingly I do not know any dog of an engineering student that successfully built a big-wheeled compact ti-folder with automated welding during the last 20 years. Or any other person for that matter. Do you know any? If not it seems either to be not that easy or a bad idea or nobody else had the idea (or the trust in the idea or the balls to it).
And btw.: If anything anybody is doing for the first time in history cannot be done because if it could be done it already would have been done earlier by someone else (who then quickly would have faced the very same argument and thus couldn't do it) we possibly would still all be living on trees.
