Plunkey

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Here's a picture of an mid/upper-range Chinese plant looks like:

Here's a more middle-of-the-road one:

 

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Pictures of the organic farm:

 

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Here's one of those huge lunches I was telling you about:

 

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Lots of 5-axis processing going on in those plants rob

 

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Here's the lobby of the restaurant where you pick-out your lunch entrees (note the live fish in the background).

 

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Lots of 5-axis processing going on in those plants rob

They had over 50 true 5-axis mills. A small one runs about $125,000 + tooling and software. The ones they had run more like $250,000 + tooling and software.

 

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Here's us drinking that damn licorice-flavored rice wine. Gah... I can still burp and taste it.

http://i55.tinypic.com/1p9f08.jpg

 

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Here's a high-end plant. They had 168 pieces of equipment, mostly swiss-style lathes and 5-axis milling machines.

 

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Similar dinner, different hosts:

 

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Here's one of the presses they use to bend the plates: