Originally Posted by Blake

Given how easy it is, I expect the tested and packaged sample in our hands by, say, the 20th and the total bid to be under $1,000 for a reasonable quanitity (~25 or so, to start) with a delivery date of the 1st of May. Get cracking, we're counting on you!

Originally Posted by TT_Rex_7

Thousands of dollars my ***!! They don't even have a $1,000.00 tied up in all of that. If they do have "thousands of dollars tied up" they got ripped off! That bracket wouldn't cost any more than 30-50 dollars to machine depending on the quantity. Same goes with the pulleys. The wouldn't have much tied up in the initial programming either. A kid could draw up those brackets in about a whole 10 minutes. With this job being so small, a machine shop would require a minimum amount to be ordered, which would also keep the cost down, while making this worth while to machine.

For that price, you'd be better off doing it yourself by getting a custom length belt, and having the bracket made. You could get ahold of a bearing through MSC that will hold the belt and so on.

If they brought the price down to around $180.00-$200.00, then it'd be somewhat worth it.

I don't mean to be an ***, i'm just speaking the truth. I personally own a machine shop with 4 cnc mills and 2 cnc lathes so I know exactly what it would take to machine the brackets/pulleys, just in case someone thinks i'm bashing/speaking out of my ***.

-Alex