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Chroming... Why so expensive??
Peter J:
Plumber or Joiner for £200 a day, let me know who they are and I'll find then loads of work for that rate of pay :daumenhoch:
My mate is a QS and he pays out £300 - £350 per day for a plumber and about the same for chippies
lcfc:
Think you all are not getting my point, i to am self employed, i am nowadays a cabbie, and would not start my engine if i knew before my shift started that i would not take at least £120 a night.
I will cut to the chase and then see if someone, anyone can explain why so much money.
I got quotes from 4 platers in and around leicester and the cheapest to copper/zinc/chrome with polishing in between all stages for ONE MONGOOSE set of FORKS ONLY was £178.45 inc.!! with the most expensive being £223......... Get the fook out of here and get real, its prices like that that has drove the work to other cheaper regions of the planet.
Dingobmxer:
--- Quote from: lcfc on February 15, 2008, 02:21 AM ---
Think you all are not getting my point, i to am self employed, i am nowadays a cabbie, and would not start my engine if i knew before my shift started that i would not take at least £120 a night.
I will cut to the chase and then see if someone, anyone can explain why so much money.
I got quotes from 4 platers in and around leicester and the cheapest to copper/zinc/chrome with polishing in between all stages for ONE MONGOOSE set of FORKS ONLY was £178.45 inc.!! with the most expensive being £223......... Get the fook out of here and get real, its prices like that that has drove the work to other cheaper regions of the planet.
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Thats well expensive!!!!
I got a set of SE bars done, stripped/polished and "show chromed" (well it must be show chrome because the bike won at MK07) for £25
:) DINGO :)
p.s I wont tell anyone where I got it done cos its my little secret and he takes long enough as it is without being bombarded with work from this site :LolLolLolLol:
Mattdub:
--- Quote from: lcfc on February 15, 2008, 02:21 AM ---
Think you all are not getting my point, i to am self employed, i am nowadays a cabbie, and would not start my engine if i knew before my shift started that i would not take at least £120 a night.
I will cut to the chase and then see if someone, anyone can explain why so much money.
I got quotes from 4 platers in and around leicester and the cheapest to copper/zinc/chrome with polishing in between all stages for ONE MONGOOSE set of FORKS ONLY was £178.45 inc.!! with the most expensive being £223......... Get the fook out of here and get real, its prices like that that has drove the work to other cheaper regions of the planet.
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Have a look in Tech & Resto stickies area at Good/Bad Chrome platers thread , should be a few chromers recommended in there ;) .
turky642003:
my jobs quite dangerous i risk being burned by acid and fried by several hundred volts each day but im still not earning the same as these guys, in fact i earn a pi*S pore wage but its my choice, i do in my opinion think they overchage (and seem to cover themselves with the danger of the job story) and its difficult. but then i dont see why they cant prep and chrome it along with the other items they are doing? rather than make it another boring fiddily job for themselves and dip it individualy, i know how much prep needs to go into them as well as i have helped my uncle (a builder of show wining hotrods) prep alot of items for his cars, and i have also worked in the motortrade prepping vehicles for paint, prep is difficult and time consuming, but still dont justify the extortion!! lol ;) i am an :Aresehole: :daumenhoch:
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