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2025-12-20 20:29:57 UTC

mhoye on Nostr: The cost of a manual pasta maker, the price of shipping replacements for the two ...

The cost of a manual pasta maker, the price of shipping replacements for the two broken plastic parts - the only two plastic parts - in the machine, and the price of the parts.

Actual cost of the part is I suspect $1.

I frequently find myself thinking, would it be cheaper to (a) buy the thing I want, (b) make it myself, or (c) build a _machine shop to build the machines I need to build the thing myself_ and it is genuinely upsetting how often the economical choice is floating between B and C.