Buster beagle sells a variant that goes up to 50 mL but once you get beyond that I think the price point is going to significantly increase. You need more pressure and capacity that an off the shelf air compressor might be able to give, for instance. So unless the availability of COTS stuff changes I think there is somewhat of a ceiling of capacity you can get at this price point
Hm... this has me thinking though and I'm already wondering if I shouldn't try my hands at a prototype, the key I think is that if you don't have to go fast that that's enough of a requirements change that you may be able to take another path.
Yeah I would not really invest the time in this kind of setup unless you are sure you want to be doing production runs out of your garage/LI setup. One easy use case off the top of my head is if you’re trying to be allowed to put “Made in USA” on your product or you otherwise have some requirement that it be manufactured here vs simply assembled.
That being said given the low cost (money) it’s also a worthwhile thing to look into because it’s so low cost. Which might be what you’re implying here, could build out a machine and even if it no longer meets your requirements down the road it’s not really a big deal because of the low monetary investment. If you’re handy that’s probably acceptable. You’ll end up knowing enough about the machine that you could probably make adjustments to it to meet some possible changing requirements down the road as well.
