Hi Manish
That's to be expected really, my project was not optimised for simplicity or to a price, or come to that with the notion of making further ones in mind! That said, much of the hard work was involved in establishing the dimensions, movement arcs and discovering what was - and wasn't - practicable to make and assemble.
If you like, I could supply you with some line-drawings of the CAD drawings for the parts as currently drawn, and you could "red-spot" the images with the parts you're interested in and return, along with a scale and/or the internal diameter of the turret-ring as a scale. I could then advise you of the price for a limited number of amended parts which you could use as the basis for a turret or two. There's a lot that can be done to make a turret design more affordable, particularly doing away with the pneumatically operated elevation and rendering some sheet parts as shapes I can make from non-3d printed material. It's the movement side of things that really adds to the costs. Likewise the working collimating sight. The "fixed ring" I designed worked well, but was far from cheap to make, so again, I'd look to simplify that greatly.
There's no reason why you would need even to buy "all the parts" required for a turret. I would suggest the "red-dotted" parts in the attached image to be sensible start. "Green-dotted" parts could be made from cheaper materials. (By no means an exhaustive list) So basically, I'd make the guns, the gun-cradle, the hydraulic stack in the middle of the turret, the box it sits on, the gun-cradle and axle and the front face of the turret cupola if needed.
I am seriously looking at taking on commissions based on, but not nearly as expensive as, the turrets I built, with a view to specialising in producing turrets and scarf-rings etc. Please don't assume that they necessarily cost the earth to make - which I why I think I suggested we meet to talk it over. As I see it, we'd be using my CAD drawings as a basis for producing a simpler kit of principle visible parts, with greater use of non-3d printed materials, for you to paint and assemble. But to look into this, we would really need to meet, preferably here in Oxfordshire so I can explain all the options, and where expense or complexity can be avoided.
(EDIT) The other way we can reduce costs would be to get the 3d printed parts produced in China.
Cheers,
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