Nige
Senior Member
I agree. Line boring is a premium skill that not every machine shop is capable of doing, let alone doing it out in the field. It should be priced accordingly. If you have a service that no-one else has you can literally charge what you like because one way or another the customers are going to have to pay it.
To give you an example of that until we got our own machine on site we used to pay the only company with the capability (in our area that is) $30k for building up and line boring the loader frame & B Pin bores on a large wheel loader. That was 6 bores about 8" diameter and approximately 36" total length (2 x 12" long, 4 x 6" long) for the 6 bores. It was a case of we had no alternative......
To give you an example of that until we got our own machine on site we used to pay the only company with the capability (in our area that is) $30k for building up and line boring the loader frame & B Pin bores on a large wheel loader. That was 6 bores about 8" diameter and approximately 36" total length (2 x 12" long, 4 x 6" long) for the 6 bores. It was a case of we had no alternative......