Pay the money, don't bother asking a weapon tech. They aren't gun smiths and are quite far from it. They are taught how to diagnose and change parts on CF weapons, mobile kitchens and be lock smiths. Take 10 DP02 qualified weapon techs and ask them to chamber a barrel blank, cut threads or blue print an action and you will get 10 blank stares.
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Attaboy. The balls to admit you're wrong are not often found on this site of ours. Good on ya.
I would suggest that you copy this post ^ and attach it as an edit below your original post. Your "manning up" post buried here 80 posts deep will do little to quench the flames if people can't find it.
In the mean time, put this on:
More then a Carpenter.
Mecahnical repair shops are getting exensive to run these days though.....with the software costs and fancy specialty tools needed.
Gone are the days of fixing things with a basic set of auto tools.
Plumbing and Electrical haven't changed nearly as much in the 25 years I've been in construction.
Electricians don't need shops or even a lot of expensive and large tools. Usually work under a roof...... good trade for sure.
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To me 85 an hour is expensive. However it all depends on where you are! Here in nb most things are cheep do Labour. In fort Mac it's more! Heck I have a few friends who own semi's and parked them here to truck for someone else in Alberta. I own a business and have over head so I do understand that you need to charge more than actual Labour cost. At the end of the day it's your choice to pay the quoted price or not. To me I wouldn't pay that here I'd do like others and learn and do it myself. If it was 30 an hour I'd say go ahead. But that's my 0.02.
Buzzballer
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Hehe this thread has made me laugh. Try dealing with engineers that charge $500 an hour to sit on their computers and plug in a few bits of Data.
I'm sure for the gunsmith trying to remove a live round that's stuck in a chamber, $85 an hour just doesn't seem like enough.
I'm sure for the gunsmith trying to remove a live round that's stuck in a chamber, $85 an hour just doesn't seem like enough.
Avalonthas
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Well it looks like the OP concluded the thread in his last post.
You have to pay for the gunsmith to not be earning the $85 doing someone else's work for that hour. If you want me to spend my time painting your house you have to pay what someone else would pay me to paint their house instead. That's how markets operate.
Nothing like a Army guy who makes over $60,000 a year complaining about a Gunsmith who makes a lot less
Tools, time, skill and quality cost money.
I know a lot of military guys and they don't make even close to $60,000 a year. Most of them have second jobs just to make ends meet.
I just read this entire thread so I feel I have earned the right to comment.
Point 1: I am glad to see that the OP has "manned up" and admitted he was wrong. To err is human, to admit it superhuman. Apologizing definately earned you back some respect.
Point 2: c-fbmi in post #44 nails it. Couldn't say it better myself.
Point 1: I am glad to see that the OP has "manned up" and admitted he was wrong. To err is human, to admit it superhuman. Apologizing definately earned you back some respect.
Point 2: c-fbmi in post #44 nails it. Couldn't say it better myself.
boss351cleveland
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Im in a skilled construction trade , i have to charge about $85 for me my tools and truck . A mechanic with a shop charges about the same ..
a non spec MCpl 9 years in would make around incentive 2 or 3, 5116.00 a month, if he was Appointed after 4 years as Cpl. 3 years as Pte. Not counting his LDA, which he is with the Strats, so 7.5ish years LDA(not counting initial basic and battle school, that is probably lvl 2, another 498ish a month. Then take out taxes.
Makes about 67k before the tax man and life takes its share.
