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What is an Acceptable Error?

CNC Plasma cutting is inherantly not as precise or reliable as (much) more expensive processes like Laser Cutting, but the cost benefits to us as a business, and in turn you as the customer are well worth that small margin in accuracy. For reference, if we were sending out our laser cutting, each kit would cost between 20% and 50% more than it does now.

As a result of these small errors we sometimes have kits that are entirely functional, but will require an extra 30 seconds of processing before you start assembly. In order to keep our kit prices low, and our environmental footprint as light as possible, we consider errors that do not affect the quality of a kit to be acceptable. Any errors that will prevent you, the customer, from fully enjoying your kit are scrapped (actually, we include those pieces in our "Boxes of Crap” for new welders to practice on).

See below for examples of what we consider acceptable and what we do not so you can buy with confidence that you’re getting the best kit we can ship, at the best price!