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Topic: Flown Kapton: Why the price difference?
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capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 06-07-2012 04:51 PM
   
Out of curiosity, how come Kapton in a lucite presentation tends to sell for much more than the same Kapton presented on a card?As an example, check out e-Bay item 320904247103 (not mine, and I don't know the seller) -- for sale buy it now for $209 with apparently no takers. I can't find a lucite for sale right now, but it seems that they go for more. Do people just like the lucite displays better? |
Spaceguy5
Member Posts: 427
From: Pampa, TX, US
Registered: May 2011
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posted 06-07-2012 07:17 PM
Personally I think displays in general are absurdly priced.1.75 square inches of just one layer of a space shuttle aluminized kapton MLI blanket, mounted to a printed display: $49 (though when I got mine years ago, it was more). If you extrapolate, that's $4032 a square foot (and mind you, this is just one layer of MLI — a typical MLI blanket has many layers). Meanwhile, I recently got 7252 square inches of 8 fully intact space shuttle blankets for $660. Which means $13.20 a square foot (for every layer of MLI/beta cloth combined). In other words, a fully intact (it even still has mounting hardware) 599 square inch goldized kapton MLI/beta cloth blanket which flew attached to a Spacelab Igloo was only $54.51. If for some crazy reason, I decided to chop up my blanket and sell them at Spaceflori's price, I'd be sitting on about a million dollars (that is, if you assumed there were actually 20,000 people crazy enough to spend $50 for 1.75 square inches of insulation). Probably even several million as I don't plan on taking any of these blankets apart to count the layers. | |
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