Thanks mate. As i thought, even with a reasonable base machine price it is getting up there. With my base machine price and my unwillingness to diy it would be a couple k more for my Bally i think.
That may not stop someone down the road who can do the work themselves and i hope it does eventually find the right person.
If you are going to tie a few hundred thousand dollars up in a new venture, you definitely should have a plan to make a profit, otherwise you won't find investors.
This is a lot different to my business where i started by importing a couple of boxes full of stuff and organically grew. It's one big step and then another.