I would have thought you would go cnc for cabinet manufacture rather than slide guide table as nearly all the slots, holes etc can be achieved with the various router bits and repeated accurately.

Also I did hear that you will be making repro hankin cocktail tables but nothing advertised here (AP) unless I missed it, could you start a thread on that to clarify for those interested, would it be a 60 in 1 or something similar, lcd or crt etc.

I am buying machinery that is versitile enough to be used for many purposes. Labour here is VERY cheap - I don't need an expensive machine when I can employ 2 people to do the job - this also creates local employment and the "buzz" around the village where my factory is high about the "two Australians giving jobs to locals" - we are well respected here already and I only found that out yesterday by accident. We are also using "Mom & Dad" small businesses to make engineered parts to help the little guy where we can.

In Australia you NEED a CNC type machine to cut down on the labor costs as staff are about $6000 a month (minimum) - I can have 15 workers here for the price of ONE in Australia - sorry, but that's a fact that I have no control over and the main reason I have my factory here.

One engineering place we use has their disabled son working there who has some motor problem but he is a genius when it comes to operating the family machines and I give them as much work as I can. In Australia they would be sitting back and asking Centrelink to cough as they are "so hardly done by" - there IS a Government scheme in China that would net the family about 50% of the going wage plus medical and other help (contrary to what some reports say) but this family has chosen to help make their son a valuable part of society, and he is, and I will help them along any way I can.

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I have negotiated the rights to reproduce Hankin cocktail cabinets with A.Hankin & Co of Newcastle

These will be a licenced product and built to a very high standard with ply cabinets.

I didn't mention it on this forum as it isn't a pinball and I thought the interest in this project wouldn't be that high on AP? Updates will be on my facebook page (facebook.com/HomepinPinball)

I will have finished tables ready to ship in about 8 weeks and have orders for 2 containers already. I'm not interested in competing with the others on price as mine will be:

(A) electrically safe and certified as such
(B) licenced product (do you want the Omega knockoff watch or a real one?)
(C) plywood cabinets
(D) so many other improvements over the 'cheapo' ones I can't list them all