Re: How much would it cost?

In article <zGMFe.50686$4o.49024@fed1read06>, SteveB says...

>All I want to know is if it will be plausible. One fellow said he needed a
>drawing. For what? If he can't read the simple description, I don't want
>him to touch the job.

That's too bad. Because grant asked for a drawing, he would have
been the most likely one to give a decent quote.

Unless you provide a drawing, with dimensions (*toleranced* dimensions)
you have ZERO chance of getting what you want.

ZERO.

ABSOLUTELY ZERO.

You will not be happy with what you receive unless you tell
the person making it what you want made. The way that is done
in this business is not with a phone call, not with an e-mail,
not with verbal description.

It's done with a print, with dimensions and tolerances. This
does not have to be a CAD drawing, it doesn't even have to be
done on a drafting board with a t-square. But it has to adhere
to the conventions for views, dimensions, and tolerances.

Unless you can render your idea into a drawing like that, NOBODY
can make it. Except maybe you. But as a reference point, whenever
I go into my own shop to whack together a motorcycle part, on my
own lathe, as a one-off that never has to be duplicated ever,
the first thing I do is:

MAKE A DRAWING. WITH DIMENSIONS.

>Can anyone give a straight answer? I'm not really interested in how to do
>it or which machines one would use. Just a guess at how much each would
>cost.

You may not realize it, but you *are* getting the straight answer. I
propose that you bring the task to a local job shop and pitch it to them.
See what they say.

It's gonna be 100 bucks an hour to design and draw it. Depending on how
rapidly you change the concept during the design phase, this will be
between one and ten hours.

Then they're probably gonna charge you between 60 and 100 bucks per
hour to *make* them. If you don't care to change the design to make
the manufacture easier, this can run up fast. You *should* care how
they're made, and what machines are used. That determines how much
they cost.

>You guys are a great group, but you missed the target on this one.

Elaborate on "target" concept....

Jim


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