Diki,

You must be kidding! The cost of creating a mold for an injection-mold plastic mold is beyond your wildest dreams. I've had some experience with this and the cost is astronomical. In my case I wanted to have a 10 cavity mold made for a fishing lure, one that was very easy to make and could be produced at most machine shops in less than a day. The cost, in 1980, was $25,000 for the mold alone. And, the mold was nothing more than an aluminum block measuring 25 inches long with 10 tapered holes and a spruce injection hole at the top of each hole. Nothing complicated, but damned expensive. Today, the same mold would cost more than $100,000 and it's nothing compared with the upper and lower halves of a keyboard shell. I would surmise the cost would be in the millions--and this would just be for the keyboard's shell. The keybed would also have to be retooled, along with dozens of other components. Yep, every manufacturer would want to put out that kind of money for a tiny percentage of their overall market--NOT!

Gary

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