Actually there are only 200 in the box. Two boxes. 380 total on the table. they were $312 each. So more like $62k for the one box.
But they are supposed to sound very good, and you get those plastic trays.
So win win.
What you miss is the horrendous trail of QC and accounting paper that follows each cap, That's the thing that costs money, not the cap itself. That's how you get your $1k hammers and toilet seats. It's the paper trail.
I thought all that extra money went to pay for SPIES/BlACK OPS/CIA TYPE STUFF.
Geez the stuff that gets dropped off at my house, some fertilizer and a post like this will get ME on THE LIST!!!
Geez the stuff that gets dropped off at my house, some fertilizer and a post like this will get ME on THE LIST!!!
if military service was compulsory where you live (i deduct it is not) you'd have a whole different idea of what the army is about
As a greek who has gone to the army, it's a big joke.
It really is needed too. I worked in the space launch business. THink about a 100 million dollar rocket with ahalf billion dollar payload on top. You can NOT test this this thing completely and the launch is the first time it all has to work together the first time. If one little thing goes wrong you have wasted 600 million bucks. But worse you loose the use of the spacecraft that would have done something (Like relay phone calls, predict weather or whatever.
One failed power supply filter cap can cause the entire thing to fail and again you can't test it. So what do you do. You build hundreds of filter caps and be VERY carful to make each one the same way from the same batch of platic and the same batch of foil and then you test 50 of the caps from that batch that will not go one the rocket. You test for cap to cap veriation and so on.
So there is an army of people keeping track of what batch of aluminum every rivit and ever capastiot was made from and how each batch was testedd and verify the signatures on the forms. So that little film cap has paper work that shows who made it on what day and where the bought the plastic and what tests were done on the plastic and so on. This paper trail is verified many times
I can tell you that if some one finds a bit of wire on the rocket and they can't verify a signature on a test of wire from that sool they will half the launch and replace the part.
Airplanes are almost as bad as rockets in the paper work. Every part has to come from a facility that is known to follow ules for how to track parts.
If you have a rocket with 10 million parts inside you can't accpt even a one in a million chance that a part might fail.
Or just take my work for it. Some one needed that documentation and was willing to pay for it.
I wonder if that is the economic optimum. Given that one electrolytic capacitor might cost 1$ and very likely work reliably. Maybe you could make 100 rockets that would have a 10% success rate for the same money.
Traceability, mil areo medical quite often have to have a life of 15 years, and have to work, quite often these designs are life critical, if they fail someone dies. You dont realy want that to happen so extra care and a host of checking and paper work is involved. But most design where possible uses off the shelf components these days (not all) as like everyone else cost constraints afect all aspects of design.
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That's not why the hammer or toilet seat cost $1k.
$1k was spent. $20 on the hammer or toilet seat, $980 on things that "they" don't want "you" to know about.
Dealing with the fallout of overspending on junk like hammers and toilet seats is easier than explaining where the other $980 really went.
I know about the case in question. It was 10 to 15 years ago. What happened is the idiot procurement person added "boiler plate" text to his RFP that requested the vendor supply information about how he follows equal opportunity employment act and other things like to. HE then let it out to bid. The vendor billed him for a hammer plus a ton of contractual paperwork.
They have sense fixed the root of the problem and issued credit cards for buying small item like this s they no longer have to get bids.
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