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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CopperKing559, post: 1329216, member: 34940&quot;]Hence, the suggestion of running longer? Why even deal with the logistics of 300 million cents in an 8 hour shift. It&#039;s more feasible to run 10 machines for 10 months and pay the operators close to nothing. Have you worked in a high production injection molding facility? Like I said, they can be run for quite a while for close to nothing. Dump their cent equipment for new, injection molding equipment, and train the operators on 3 shifts, 24 hours a day. You&#039;ll hit that 300 million mark fairly quickly with little to no maintenence cost. Not to mention the profit you&#039;d make from dumping equipment from the other mint. Again, making plastic cents would be a whole lot easier than striking blanks. Plastic costs nothing compared to metal, and can be pumped out much faster. The only real problem I see them facing would be the amount of errors injection molding can encounter. Far worse than metal-working, IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t saying that they switch machines and resume production. I suggested a few cost effective measures be taken and it will clearly be more ecocomically feasible. Even so, I still say we continue with metal. I&#039;ll never store a jug of plastic, fiat, garbage.</p><p><br /></p><p>+1 on the 2 cent pieces![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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