Exactly. You could make quite an industrial complex with a few of the parts from 3 or 4 of the IHC versions.
NL:
Of course, the voice of dissent is important and makes things interesting.
Still, I’m going to reply that this claim is only true if the most expensive parts are used, and if the time and effort are counted as liabilities, instead of beneficial and fun exercises that help prevent the neurons from blowing out under the stress of daily life, or from deteriorating through lack of stimulation.
You know what also tickles me about this?
People make this claim very often, and just as often, somebody makes the completely inverse claim that a $50 craftsman structure is actually a good deal because the time and effort spent in assembling it means the price per hour is less.
So we end up with a self-contradictory set of parameters:
-When a $50 model is available that takes little effort, it’s completely worth the price because the $5 one takes 10x the work to upgrade.
-When a $50 model is available that takes a lot of effort, it’s completely worth the price, because it takes 10x the work than the $5 one and is therefore just as good a deal.
When I think of it this way, I start to realize that the only constant is that high prices can always be justified. I think we just have too much practice doing this subconsciously with ourselves or consciously with our wives!
Have fun with your cement plant, DK. The IHC model looks good.