Mech Hangers Are Expensive

bennett_346

I think my last one was an NSB from CRC for a reasonable £12.99. They are CNC'd but OE ones probably aren't.

97th choice

Tenner for the one on my giant. Happy to pay it tbh

Northwind

stubs wrote:

If it was so easy then the Chinese who can knock out CNC machined LED lights for £10 would be making them and selling them for noodles.

Probably not much margin in it, you can buy a hanger for £10-£15 usually in the UK, so £5 from HK with 30 days wait isn't going to attract that much custom especially as people tend to want them in a hurry. Also there are also people making cheap OEM-alternative hangers so it's a crowded market.

Thing is, CNC would be fine for making small volumes but if you want to make a lot, it's time inefficient. And if you've got the hardware, there's more profitable uses for it. It's not so much the cost, as the opportunity cost.

RockmonkeySC wrote:

You also need to get the right grade aluminium, it may not be the same as the frame and it may need heat treatment.

No reason to match grades really- you'd pick out one suitable for the task not necessarily the same as what OEM uses. Shouldn't be any need to heat-treat, no stress relief or hardening.

rockmonkeysc

For the lights you can just set up a CNC lathe with a bar feed to knock out loads of items the same with and operator working several machines at once.
Mech hangers need a bit more human input for loading/unloading each part and changing set ups for each hanger. One operator could probably only work a couple machines.

Lagrange

B...H...!! I've just paid a little short of £40 for an LHS and RHS spare hangers for my Orange p7. I'll get them insured!

ilovedirt

Lagrange wrote:

B...H...!! I've just paid a little short of £40 for an LHS and RHS spare hangers for my Orange p7. I'll get them insured!

Yeah, the ones on my ragley have to be bought as a pair of dropouts, rather than just a spare hanger, costs about £20... I don't see why they can't offer them as just drive side, I mean how many people are going to want to buy the non-drive side more than once? And that's only if you're changing your axle.