Fw: vert hammer replacement

[Michael Gamble]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Gamble" <michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "Corina Gamble" <corina@gambles.fsnet.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: vert hammer replacement


> Hello List and Terry Peterson
> I go along with this: "I charge about 2/3rds of my tuning fee as an hourly
> labor
> rate for repairs, regulation, and such." This is just about what I do.
> Sometimes I work another way though..... having made a quote to the client
I
> then, as always, meticulously keep a "work sheet" going in the workshop as
> the repairs progress. This way I know how long I take to do any aspect of
> the job, the materials used and therefore how much they cost me. Then at
the
> end I tot up the bill, make a guess at how long the installation and
> regulation is going to take, add that to the bill, divide by the number of
> hours it has taken. If I'm in the red by a huge amount I simply reduce my
> hourly rate, but (like the garage) charge them extra for the parts. But
the
> convenience of working in one's own home workshop with no need to take to
> the road has its own reward.
> Regards to all from a darkening village in the Sussex Downlands
> Michael G (UK) T.G.I.F.
>