jakebake91
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Lol, Discmania/Innova has had 13 years to duplicate those first PDs. Still trying.
That can't even make the same disc of their own from run to run.
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Lol, Discmania/Innova has had 13 years to duplicate those first PDs. Still trying.
I'll keep that in mind. Key thing I'm getting from this is that I should at least check out the Anode, see how it feels and floats. I won't limit myself to just a Spin.I think anodes glide comparable to really any other putter I've thrown. I'd have given my electrons 3/4/0/0. Maybe 3/4/-.5/0
That can't even make the same disc of their own from run to run.
anyone know the length of Valerie's contract?
No one can. That's not how plastic manufacturing works, even on extremely large scales. When we say a manufacturer is consistent it just means that they don't sell through each run very quickly.
That's absolutely false. Plastics manufacturing is NOT an inherently inaccurate process. As someone who has worked in plastic injection molding, actually having physically built the molds, as well as working QC for an injection facility, it's not that hard to be accurate and consistent. Just have to have the right standards in place. Some companies do far better than others, that's a fact.
I've toured facilities that make plastic injection parts with tolerances 5x smaller than the diameter of a hair on your head. It can absolutely be done. Granted, making frisbees to smack trees with do not have to be that precise, nor should they. But it is possible. Seen it. Done it.
That's absolutely false. Plastics manufacturing is NOT an inherently inaccurate process. As someone who has worked in plastic injection molding, actually having physically built the molds, as well as working QC for an injection facility, it's not that hard to be accurate and consistent. Just have to have the right standards in place. Some companies do far better than others, that's a fact.
I've toured facilities that make plastic injection parts with tolerances 5x smaller than the diameter of a hair on your head. It can absolutely be done. Granted, making frisbees to smack trees with do not have to be that precise, nor should they. But it is possible. Seen it. Done it.
That's what I was wondering about. That's literally the thought in my head as I comped it to the Warden, which has similar numbers and that I abandoned as a putting putter to go to the Deputy. The Warden is a must bag throwing putter for me, though. Maybe it turns out I add both the Anode AND Spin long term for those respective roles?When putting, I've found the Anode to be slightly lower glide compared to the micro and non-beaded beaded Aviar variants I'm used to. The difference seems to come out when they get thrown, and it's weird, they don't "glide" per say, they just seem to penetrate downfield a bit better than other driving putters of their height.
Hmm. I'll put my $$ on 14x8.5.I'm guessing the length is 11...
inches long x 8½ inches wide.
I'm sure the molds and conditions can be controlled but if your supply can't then you expect some variance.
I'm guessing the length is 11...
inches long x 8½ inches wide.
While it is true that there is variance in the supplies of raw materials, there are ways to (mostly) account for the variables on an injection press. Accounting for said variance is what makes some companies more consistent than others. Just running every single batch of parts with the same exact press settings regardless of the raw material is a way to see wild variance in finished parts. It just takes decent quality standards to catch parts that are coming out as non conforming and make appropriate changes.
I'm sure every manufacturing field deals with their own versions of input variables. There are generally ways to handle them.
in the recreational sport market dealing with plastics i guess you could compare it to the bicycle industry. companies do make really consistently good quality high performing carbon fiber bike frames (99% of the time in Taiwan/china) but you're going to PAY a LOT for them.
the top tier stuff now makes for $15-18K flagship model bikes and now even "mid tier" bikes are in the $5-7K range
I don't want that to happen to disc golf... you'd probably be looking at $200-400 discs straight from the MVP/Innova/Trilogy flagship discs lol.
but to swing this back to sponsorship stuff... if MVP did create a higher quality consistent $300 flagship Simon distance driver you know disc golfers would eventually start buying them and raising that freaking bar making who you sponsor all the more lucrative/important.
In your scenario you project a 10-fold increase in price in order to have consistently performing discs. I am curious what you attribute that increase to.
$400 per disc is a far cry from $400 for a bag of good discs, so I personally don't see this as a likely scenario. I can see some collectors paying $400 for a disc, but not for consumer level discs for day to day usage.
(Apologies for continuing the thread drift, but I feel the numbers throw out here beg for a little further insight)
just like bicycles started selling for over $1000 in the 90's and it quickly ramped up to what you have today with flagship carbon fiber bikes almost hitting the $20k range now and mid tier bikes in the $5k range. I don't want that to happen with disc golf. it already happened to ball golf and tennis with clubs and rackets going crazy expensive.