> Let's say that some hypothetical company was interested > in making some ZPIPs for sale, based on the earlier > discussed model of converting TreeHouse sets. Let's also > assume that said company was capable of effectively > negating shipping costs from LLabs or a distributor. If you also presume said company will set up a jig on a band saw and use a table sander, then I think our past calculations show that one could pay $40 an hour in labor and still sell a complete set of 55 ZPIPs for around $35 plus shipping. That seems fair to me. Much over $40 for 55--i.e. more than the price of four Treehouse sets--and I'd make them myself (I don't earn $40 an hour at my full time job). > (if it's going to be a word, we no longer need to > capitalize it) Well, technically speaking, ZPIPs is an initialism, as it doesn't make a pronounceable word. However, if it is hyphenated as Z-PIPs (which, I believe, it should be: "zero-point" is a compound adjective), it does make an acronym (i.e. it's pronounceable). But either way, acronyms and initialisms remain capitalized until they become very, very common. Like, radar and scuba common. Z-PIPs will probably not gain more common usage than, say, HTML or WYSIWYG or any other very common acronyms/initialisms that are still all-caps. Just 2¢ from a technical editor; David