Are any tolerances critical?
I have a few design concerns. You spec a 6-32 tapped hole located 0.10" to centerline from the coupler edge. The drill diameter is 0.1495". This leaves less than 0.025 wall thickness. Can the hole be a little closer than 0.50" to the other tapped hole?
The...
Bob,
Wow- only about a 2% bid award. How much time do you spend quoting 100 projects to get those 2 jobs? Surely that has to be accounted in your profit margin for those jobs. If you only averaged 15 minutes per quote, you'd spend 25 hours bidding to get 2 successful jobs. It's looking...
Labor rates
What gives here? I am new to this forum. I have difficulty seeing how anyone could bid less than $2.00 for a part like this. In fact, it seems many of the quotes in the forum I looked at over the weekend are pitifully low. I'm guessing if this would go into production the actuators...