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Old 01-29-2012, 03:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Taylorm
One of our old time 1/8 Toledo guys contacted the Parma guys and they didnt seem to interested in doing the 1/8 stuff.............
Parma would be interested if you were prepared to do what Bob has done, and buy a serious quantity of bodies from them. Remember when they are moulding your bodies they aren't moulding the ones they make a living from. If the old moulds don't match the latest machines they have, there can be a day of work that has to be paid for in getting the mould ready and running test pulls to get the settings right.

I have had small runs of bodies from Frewer, which being a much smaller company are pretty accommodating in pulling short runs, but they still ended up costing $40 a piece and we had to buy minimum quantities to get the price down to that.
I also have a mate who got Schumacher to pull a run of old bodies for him, they wanted $300 for the set up costs before making any bodies, so he had to work out how many bodies he needed to buy to make the price per shell reasonable.

If you want Parma to mould some bodies for you, wanting a handful of them isn't going to get them moulding them for you. Go to them and try to buy (and pay for!) 100 or more bodies of one type and then see if they are interested.
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