Machine shop prices

[Karl_Childers]

How much have you paid to have broken bolt removed at a machine shop? Just curious what different folks' expierences are. Thanks!!!!

 

[chris.olson]

Re: Machine shop prices

How much have you paid to have broken bolt removed at a machine shop? Just curious what different folks' expierences are. Thanks!!!!

I don't have a set fee for broken bolt removal in my shop - it's time and materials at $88/hour.
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Chris​

 

[rtpassini]

Re: Machine shop prices

88 an hour?! holy crap

around here shops charge about 55 an hour.

 

[Karl_Childers]

Re: Machine shop prices

interesting, thanks for the replies, so at 55 or 88 bucks an hour, how many broken off bolts can be removed in one hour?

Thanks!

 

[cannonford57]

Re: Machine shop prices

well karl,i'm only 65 an hour so it depends on the bolt...lets say you have got oh 14 5/16 bolts broken off in an exhaust plate.....1 man doing nothing else can maybe do 1 every 10 minutes....that includes drilling,cleaning,drilling,heat,cleaning,tapping...yeah,10 mins is real good....thats 140 mins.2.3 hrs......$149.50...man got to see what hes doing,power bill......cant do it i the rain....rent...cant do it with his bare hands....tools.and lets not forget our dear uncle sams part.......priceless...the bigger the bolt the more time it takes,not a bad deal huh?