[sdiy] Is it me or...

[Peter Grenader]

What you say is true,  but I'm not buyin' it in this instance.  This is a
piece of sheet metal with holes in a matrix - all of them fall at .8 in
horizontally, by .85 inch vertically. The ONLY catch is there are 4
different hole sizes.

I originally came to them to quote drilling all the faceplates on precut
aluminum that I WOULD PROVIDE and they wanted $850 for 50 pieces.  Work the
math - that's $17 each!  At a quantity of 10 or so I could see this, but at
fifty...I dunno. SO, I settled for a drill guide instead and for the $$ they
want for that, I might as well have them drill all of them. Obviously,
neither is going to happen here.

You guys can actually see the piece here, it's not high tech by any means:

http://www.buzzclick-music.com/DRILLGUIDE.pdf

Unless they are paying their people $175 on hour, I don't get it.



 James Patchell wrote:

> If you ordered two pieces, it would probably still cost about $500....the
> main cost for a machine shop is the setup.  Also, ask the person giving the
> quote why it is $500.  Sometimes you may make a drawing that something on
> it that is difficult to do which can really make the cost go up.  By
> changing the drawing, in that case, you can greatly reduce the price of the
> object...one common mistake, specifying too tight a tolerance...
> 
> At 12:25 PM 7/24/2004 -0700, Peter Grenader wrote:
>> I was just quoted $500 from a machine shop to cut a single piece of 1/8 inch
>> steel about 5 x 3.5 inches and drill 24 holes in it. OK, there are four
>> drill sizes involved, but..
>> 
>> GIVE ME A #*)#(*#()*@*&? BREAK!
>> 
>> Is this what these guys are making nowdays?  I mean, is this normal?
> 
> -Jim
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