Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

No, but she looks almost that old!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Nice fix, and good deed Jerry!
In my experience, and tom would know better, auto shops seem to charge basically double the parts price in labor when it’s just a parts swap job. So on a 500$ bill, before tax, 250 would be parts, 250 labor.
Shop overhead @ 30% leave 175$ for Jer Bear for his 3 hours work, before his own 30% tax hit on his pay, so 134$-ish take home for 3 hours work.
At least, that’s my math., hehe.

I disagree with your math. He spent $100 and 3 hours labor to do a $500 job. That is a $400 savings.

To make that $400 and pay a 30% income tax let alone the sales tax on that money that means he would have to "earn" $520 to pay someone else $400 for the added price that they charge.

The $520 divided by the 3 hours of labor it cost him means the savings was $173 per hour for his time.

I like that math better. Savings always looks better on paper.

Originally Posted by Gasman

No, but she looks almost that old!

Just use the double paper bag system. Two bags over her head in case one falls off! Just kidding! You're a good man!

I agree with your specific math Tim, but what i was offering was a comparison to what a standard shop rate cost break down would be, not against the actual job specified.
So few shops actually fix components anymore, what Jerry fixed for 100 and 3 hours of troubleshooting and ingenuity, few will even attempt, they just swap stuff.
So I based my math on that premise.
I’ve had to explain to my kin, many times that just cause the posted shop rate in any given auto shop may say “$100/hr”, the auto tech is NOT making that..

All good stuff, Love running these hypotheticals with you gents!

Originally Posted by Johntoad57

Just use the double paper bag system. Two bags over her head in case one falls off! Just kidding! You're a good man!

Brings to mind one of my fathers classic teaching moments,
“No girl is ugly till your friends see her son”

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Brings to mind one of my fathers classic teaching moments,
“No girl is ugly till your friends see her son”

My youngest, my boy, my heir apparent turns 25 today.
Made him his own bog oak ring to match his sister and mom’s rings. While theirs are 4mm width, his is 6 mm. For a bigger finger length it just makes sense. This is a size 10, his mitts are bigger than his dads..

Cheers men.

Very nice Mike, very nice.

None of us boys could come close to the size of my dad's hands. Well they weren't really hands they more like Paws! I have a picture of him holding a certificate for an idea he came up with for Green Giant and he's wearing a GG service ring on his left ring finger. I can take that ring, put it on my right thumb and it just wobbles all over/probably 4-5 sizes bigger I swear.

Banana hands.
Like shaking hands with a bunch of banana's.