Where to get a small component machined?

universe777

I am looking to get a small brass block 41mm long machined down to 32mm, and 3 existing holes redrilled and tapped again.
It shouldnt cost a fortune, I have a Diploma in Mech./Manufacturing Eng. but no access to a workshop as I have graduated a couple of years ago.
It'd be a 15min job max for any student competent enough on the milling machine.
I am in Dublin, any Bolton St. DIT Mechanical Engineering students with workshop access want to earn some easy money? I think €20 would do it.
I work beside Bolton street.
Mods feel free to move this if need be.

MrPreachan

Hi Universe, I can give you a contact in Dublin area for that job, I would expect to pay more than €20 though, without even seeing it you are probably looking closer to €50, its definitely close to an hours work with setup, time away from another job etc.

universe777

"Hi Universe, I can give you a contact in Dublin area for that job, I would expect to pay more than €20 though, without even seeing it you are probably looking closer to €50, its definitely close to an hours work with setup, time away from another job etc."

Pm me the contact, thanks.

Definitely no more than a 15 min. job.
There is no setup involved, clamp the brass block in the vice, and with 1 swipe of the milling machine take 9mm off the top of the block. It is only 50mm long, 41mm high, 8mm thick.
Redrill the 3 holes in it, and tap them, If i had access to a workshop I could do it in less.
By the way €20 for a 15 min. job = the equivalent of €80 an hour, a lot more than any Technician or Engineer would earn.
If your contact can do it for €20, pm me their details (email etc.).

fishdog

the equivalent of €80 an hour, a lot more than any Technician or Engineer would earn.

I dont think so

MrPreachan

Sorry Universe, I wont be passing on details! Setup your own workshop and Ill go to you for all my work at your prices:p

universe777

MrPreachan wrote: »

Sorry Universe, I wont be passing on details! Setup your own workshop and Ill go to you for all my work at your prices:p

I don't want the details, you sound like a tool, pardon the pun.

All I was asking for was a simple modification. It requires no "setup", only a milling machine, pillar drill, and a bench vice.
Clamp the piece in the milling machine vice, and with one swipe take off 9mm.
It isn't rocket science, nor is it commercial work, it was aimed at a student with workshop time(15mins max), orsomeone that works in a machine shop and would do it for a nominal fee (as a nixer).
@s! If people are turning down money for a tiny amount of effort. I would have paid slightly more than €20 to the right person.

I got someone to do it, they said no problem, and not charging a fortune.

By the way Fishdog, do you earn more than €80???
I said "By the way €20 for a 15 min. job = the equivalent of €80 an hour, a lot more than any Technician or Engineer would earn."
If you do earn even half that, please let me know if there are any vacancies...

fishdog

By the way Fishdog, do you earn more than €80???

No, Im a full time engineering student!

I said "By the way €20 for a 15 min. job = the equivalent of €80 an hour, a lot more than any Technician or Engineer would earn."

I know. It is not more than any engineer would earn, it is more than most would earn

If you do earn even half that, please let me know if there are any vacancies...

€40 an hour is under €82k a year. Engineers Ireland carried out a survey on engineers salary and I can assure you many engineers earn over this. There is a vacancy here that pays up to €100k

Turbulent Bill

universe777 wrote: »

I don't want the details, you sound like a tool, pardon the pun.

All I was asking for was a simple modification. It requires no "setup", only a milling machine, pillar drill, and a bench vice.
Clamp the piece in the milling machine vice, and with one swipe take off 9mm.
It isn't rocket science, nor is it commercial work, it was aimed at a student with workshop time(15mins max), orsomeone that works in a machine shop and would do it for a nominal fee (as a nixer).
@s! If people are turning down money for a tiny amount of effort. I would have paid slightly more than €20 to the right person.

I got someone to do it, they said no problem, and not charging a fortune.

By the way Fishdog, do you earn more than €80???
I said "By the way €20 for a 15 min. job = the equivalent of €80 an hour, a lot more than any Technician or Engineer would earn."
If you do earn even half that, please let me know if there are any vacancies...

Glad you got the work done, but you were lucky to get it for €20 (if that's what you paid). Any job, regardless of the size, will need a setup time, measurement stages, verification of finish etc. unless the tolerances are very lax. Factoring in the opportunity cost of manufacture, running costs etc. would easily push up the price.

As a comparison, a haircut is €10-15 for a much less specialised job!

universe777

Turbulent Bill wrote: »

Glad you got the work done, but you were lucky to get it for €20 (if that's what you paid). Any job, regardless of the size, will need a setup time, measurement stages, verification of finish etc. unless the tolerances are very lax. Factoring in the opportunity cost of manufacture, running costs etc. would easily push up the price.

As a comparison, a haircut is €10-15 for a much less specialised job!

Jeez, you really aren't the sharpest tool in the box. There is NO SETUP TIME!!
It's a tiny part, I mark the straight line on it, and get someone with access to a milling machine to mill off the 9mm above that line. Zero setup time, simple, clamp it in and mill. Nowhere did I mention anything about finish, it just had to be straight and smooth to the touch, to no real tolerances.
"Cost of manufacture, running costs etc."? You really ought to close that textbook and stop quoting it, It was 1 part, not a commercial bulk order.
I do hope you dont have a job as an engineer.

mawk

setting up time couldn't possibly include.. swapping a slot drill for an end mill?
or going to the effort of knocking up some coolant?

no i guess that would be silly..

every job has a set up time. you close the vice with a mallet and its not going to stay straight for long, running a dial gauge is just good starting procedure.

MrPreachan

It's Gentlemen like the OP that made me decide to close up shop, experts on everything, costings, timings..except one thing..how to actually start your own engineering workshop. Sickening, especially when you only want to help.