And all the bits around said overkill press were designed from flat stock with features cut in it to hold things. It was reminiscent of all the terrible "we on

And all the bits around said overkill press were designed from flat stock with features cut in it to hold things. It was reminiscent of all the terrible "we only know a few manufacturing techniques and the world if full of nails that we will hit with those hammers" type designs that engineering undergrads who have no real world experience crank out. I say that as someone who used to work for the machine shop for a ME program. They probably could have cut the cost by a huge amount by using an aluminum casting (though with more engineering effort they probably could have used plastic but that would have upped the tooling complexity and I dunno if their planned volume would have made that worthwhile) and machining all the features to hold the moving bits into it (bonus points for doing it all with one tool and one holding fixture) and designed their press mechanism around the gearbox of some power tool you can find at Harbor Freight for under $50. New engineers being new engineers I would put serious money on all their machining having stupidly tight tolerances. New engineers love doing that for some reason.