Bluecollarirons
Plastic
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2010
- Location
- Portland OR
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How many and how soon?
How many and how soon?
Having said that I won't pay more than $2 a piece for these.
I need them made from 12L14
can you do 200??
timeline I can wait 2 or 3 weeks...
Interesting to hear if all of these requirements were met.
Very simple part, quantities are low, easily done with a turret lathe.
Tom
Understand that completely, however with a part qty of only 200 pieces,
and a max. price of $2, it only can bring in $400.
Set-up and run that job for $400 means you'd be in the 4 hour range.
Can you make 200 pieces in 4 hours ? Including setting the machine up,
and cleaning the parts ?
Pretty tite I think.
You are correct. I am not the only one that might want the job for whatever, apparently Dualkit decided he could make a buck.
Shop rate is a general term used to as a guide when pricing a job. Say your rate is $50/hr. You have some machines open and people to run them. I come to you with a proposal that you could do, but at $35/hr, a small job like this, a gap filler. Would you turn down the work because you can't do it at $50/hr, but can make a little, maybe enough to pay the employee and not much more at $35/hr?
Tom
I find these type discussions baffling as no one seems to consider the possibility someone else may have a faster way to make something than they do. Everybody starts with the race to the bottom talk, someone is working for beer money, blah,blah, blah. I won't go into details as everybody is assuming I got the job. On a similar discussion a couple years ago I didn't post in a thread on a job I got and the customer posted the price it went for and said they were in the USA. People that have probably never used the type of machine I was using had the part pegged for a 3 min cycle time and claimed some loser living in his mother's basement was making them earning $15 a hour. I was dropping them in 45 seconds and running from bar stock that lasted 2 hours each.
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