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Originally Posted by baronep
What part does your team use a lot. Parts that you never have enough of? Parts that seem to be always out of stock during the FIRST season. My team is brainstorming ways to fund our team during the season by manufacturing two or three parts to sell to other teams. Any Ideas? I was thinking Andy Mark 2.5" bearing block...
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Selling a part someone else already makes is probably a losing proposition.
It is not likely that you, with no volume and no established customer base, can undercut the pricing of someone like Banebots or Andymark. That Banebots part is probably also made in China for $2 a pop.
If you sold some variant of an existing part that was improved or somehow desirable over the original that might work. Best to try and find a niche that is currently desirable and untapped.
I think you will find it is a ton of work to even attempt to do this. You almost certainly would be looking at starting for the 2013 FRC season as it would be nearly impossible to get off the ground in the next 8 weeks. You also need to be very careful that you can meet FIRST's definition of VENDOR.