[TenTec] Ten Tec custom enclosures comment...

[R. Eric Sluder-W9WLW via TenTec]

Pete,

I suspect they'll keep their in-house engineering staff that spec'd out the enclosures and the plastic injection mold requirements.  It's not uncommon to have other companies make the molds for the plastic parts.  There is economies of scale by having an outside resource build the molds and then a product shop run the molds to create parts.  You have to consider in your cost of doing business equations - how can you support on sight staff if you don't have that many new products being developed.  TT's approach won't be uncommon from many other small manufacturers.  Personally, it isn't something I'm sweating when it comes to their viability.  I do feel bad for staff that may be let go, but hopefully as they sell off machinery another shop will pick up the existing staff.

Just my $.02 view of things.

-Eric
W9WLW
http://w9wlw.blogspot.com/ 


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> From: Peter Bertini <radioconnection at gmail.com>
>To: tentec at contesting.com 
>Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 2:49 PM
>Subject: [TenTec] Ten Tec custom enclosures comment...
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>I couldn't find the original thread, but here is my concern...  I own
>several Ten Tec rigs, from VHF FM transceivers  to my HF rigs: a Paragon II
>and an Omni VI.
>
>I'd surmise that Ten Tec has always made the enclosures and provided the
>metal working for their rigs, including the cabinets, injection molded
>front panels, etc.  It would seem that the custom enclosures were an
>efficient use of existing manufacturing equipment that supported their main
>product lines.
>
>If they need to give up the injection molding and machine shop stuff, who
>is going to provide the enclosures for future ham equipment?  Is Alpha
>taking over that aspect during manufacture?
>
>Pete
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