I would tend to very much agree there, and I too have had some great results making smaller metal cutting machines with 80/20. It takes coming at it from an engineering perspective though and not a trivial amount of time in calculations. It also isn't good for everything. It definitely has its advantages though, especially when coupled with ali plate to make stressed panels and simple box sections.
I think your arguments would definitely make sense to a crowd of engineers, but around here we have a large and vocal subset that opens cans with dynamite because can openers aren't manly enough, so I don't think it will have much of an effect, especially if calculations are needed to express the concepts. |