Outrageous prices

[SamsFarm]

look at the cost for the under slung exhaust pipe from IH now, think $250 is reasonable ??

Tim,
March 2008, I bought an IH underslung pipe from Columbia Tractor for my ‘57 Loboy. $57 plus NY sales tax!
Peter

The .gov inflation calculator says your 57 dollar pipe in march of 2008 should cost $79.86 today!

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=57&year1=200803&year2=202301

[Cubfriend]

Could these rotors be made on a 3 d printer??

Not sure the original style rotors are plastic. They seem like Bakelite to me. It may be less prone to wear or maybe it handles temperatures better. Not sure. Just some food for thought.

[Gary Dotson]

I agree, Frank, I think they are phenolic or Bakelite type material. As far as 3d printing is concerned, there are a whole lot of different materials available to them, probably one of them would work well enough. That said, though, I don’t know much about it either.

[Eugene]

I agree, Frank, I think they are phenolic or Bakelite type material. As far as 3d printing is concerned, there are a whole lot of different materials available to them, probably one of them would work well enough. That said, though, I don’t know much about it either.

Visit your local tech college. The local tech college here in Linn, Mo. has some fantastic machining/manufacturing equipment.

[Waif]

Parts is parts.
Wholesale to retail runs a trend in mark up.

50 bucks. Vs a newer tractor ignition system. I've a 53 too without a mag. Not sure costs overall are too different over a 50 piece.
Or;
My truck costs thousands on some shop visits.
I'd rather pay 50 bucks for an ignition component and my truck be healed , but that doesn't help with the rest of it's pre designed short life.
My magneto tractor? Has outlived many trucks!

A Massey I had, the coils were getting scarce. Call it gouging but they were not being built anymore and prices kept going up until even at high prices they were scarce. So I killed a second coil by my own fault.
I dumped it and the man who bought it just put a different engine in it. Cheaper for him.