Reply to "Sara a local TV reporter, from Northumberland, PA - Talks with Joe the owner of Weaver Models, and Joe gives the viewers a first class tour of how they manufacture Weaver Models."

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Originally Posted by njscott:

Great video share, thanks! I've been happy with my few weaver products sad to see them go. One bit I found very interesting from the video was that they make only 5k to 8k models per year (is that cars)? Selling at $60 a car that only gets you about $500k per year. With eight employees and material costs its easy to see that margins aren't that high, it's not easy being a small niche mfg.

I did the same mental math, and it can't be right. There's no way they could support the business on $500k gross. The number of units must include locomotives. That said, it's still hard to imagine how they kept it going.

6/14/159:25 PM

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