He probably spent more than that on thy DIY version.

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Doesn't that say ￥６k, not ￥６０k? I thought　千 was 1k and 万 was 10k. Did i get them backwards?

moorsh88 said:

Doesn't that say ￥６k, not ￥６０k? I thought　千 was 1k and 万 was 10k. Did i get them backwards?

I think you're right - reading it again, that looks like the character for thousand. So it's 6k just got the nuts (and he's already paid 2700 yen for everything else), so he spent 7k yen more on parts than he would have for a real press.

And this is why you don't start such DIY projects without investigating how much an off the shelf version costs. In most cases, it's simply uneconomical to DIY, unless you want something special with features an off the shelf version doesn't have and the only way is to build it yourself.

...same applies to building an altimeter.