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Old December 3, 2011, 03:19 AM   #9
Clark
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Join Date: December 4, 1999
Location: WA, the ever blue state
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I have a shop with a Lathe, a mill, a TIG welder, and lots of other stuff for amateur gunsmithing.

Then guys started handing me drawings for jet engine starter electronics 19" test rack front panels... as I walked out the door at the end of the day.

After dinner that night...
I would put Dichem on the panel and scribe lines with a height gauge on the surface plate. Then I put the panels on the mill and cut out big round holes with a fly cutter.

The next morning I would take the part and drawing back to work and give it back to who ever handed ti to me. At the end of the week I would pad my engineering hours that I would bill the company with the extra machine time.

There was no purchase order and no approved supplier.



In a few months, my shop had paid for itself many times over.

I still haven't got a nickel for gunsmithing.
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