The shelves cost ¥1200, the wood panels just over ¥1000, and the springs and such were about ¥500, so the rest of it was almost entirely to pay for the screws.
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.
All these little things are going to end up costing me about ¥6K!!
At a Certain DIY Store
I said I was going to make a drill press, but I've got a Leutor, so I can probably get by cheaper by building shelving from the ¥100 store.I can just make the parts from wood panels and my 3D printer!The final stages of production...Nuts and bolts cost a lot more than I thought!!