Brad, why not outsource and mark up the parts to Bud? Thats a nice waterjet to rough, machine to finish part.

Brian, your parts would go fast in production on something like a pallet changer Brother R450X. Id guess a single pallet machine would be 3x-4x more productive. If you get to a point where you are selling much faster than you can build them that TM has some speed issues. If you are loading a huge table with the door open then the spindle isnt running. But maybe you have pallets that you pull and load/unload out of the machine? Anyway, those are great problems to get to solve!

I started with a Tormach sized machine. Learned tons, its hard to loose on learning new stuff. When you need more machine you typically know it. And no matter what... you are never done buying tooling.