Replies to post #8592 on Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[Jimmy777]

Jpaige, thanks for the link.

I'm worried that LQMT will fade and someone else will thrive.

The future of things using Liquidmetal seems (at least in my mind) to be a certainty. What's not certain to me is that the stock price of LQMT is going to increase as a result of it.

[Watts Watt]

Thanks for the follow-up.
As intended, Tetra is using BMG's as TOOL STEEL.

As such, it appears they will be able to get Many, Many plastic reproductions prior to replacement. So certainly, this is an intermediary step with limited volume. The end result in plastic, is of course, very voluminous in contrast, and that is wear the money is.

Of course, since Dublin says the tooling here is done at one tenth the cost of regular tooling, and is far superior, TETRA will be able to extract the maximum margins, IMHO.

But, yes, you are right.....not much in it for LQMT.

AGAIN, LQMT needs and R&D effort which it has piddled away.
Perhaps Visser will develop his own in house R&D effort in tooling as well, on a nanoscale level.........who knows............?

[ZincFinger]

Do you know for a fact that they are using Liquid Metal Tech's alloys or are you guessing at this?

Liquid metals were around a long time before LQMT existed (in rolls of thin sheets in transformers for example) so it's quite possible that other companies have their own liquid metal alloys.

So do you KNOW or are you guessing (I ask because frankly I've seen a lot of what obviously IS speculation of this board presented as if it was fact.)

Can anyone tell me what is the largest part LQMT has made (or has had someone else make) to date? (I strongly suspect that the reason we haven't yet seen a Mac laptop or tablet or I-phone with a liquid metal case yet is that they were not yet ready to cast such a large part. All the LM parts I've seen mentioned as already being in products are very small ones.

what is the largest size part currently produced?

I notice the recent PR about "shipping commercial parts" gave no examples whatsoever so it is impossible to get any sense of what size range they were. Could there be a reason for that?

They also did not make clear whether the parts were for actual inclusion in products or for testing and evaluation. (Some of the surrounding context strongly suggests the latter, IMHO.)

IMHO the stock price has probably overreacted again as it clearly did after the Apple deal and I'm waiting for a stable price to get established before I get in, IF I decide to do so.