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Control arm issues

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unusualfabrication   +1y
I'll break it down a little more than Brian. Shop owners have machine costs, material costs, consumable costs, overhead, and of course labor costs. Wether you lease or own your shop, tools, and machinery it costs money. Electricity to run heavy machinery and welders cost money. You have maintainence and upkeep on all your equipment that costs money. It costs money to have air compressors, mills, lathes, TIG welders, MIG welders, gas and wire for welders, plasma cutters, any CNC machines, depending on how you notch your tube ends (end mill, hole saw, chop saw, bandsaw), drill press, drill bits, end mills and shell mills for making cross shafts, taps, reamers, and on and on and on...... I think alot of times people forget about all the cost involved in producing any part. It's real easy to say that you can make a set of tube arms in 2 hours with "HF Pipe Bender" and get rich but your forgetting about all of the other operations that need to be done in order to make a set of arms 100%. Now with that said, you can build a set of arms without all the tooling but IMO they will look pretty rough and it won't be very efficient. I know that atleast 3 people that have posted in this thread build parts full time. Its not a hobby, we're not building one set for our truck or one set for our buddies truck. We don't have a 9-5 job where we mooch off our employers machinery, tools, consumables, and electricity. Building and selling parts puts food on the table and a roof over the head.
jeebus @ mmw   +1y
Hes probably all ready rich by now.






Taylor
thomasd   +1y
Maybe we can all go work for him so we can learn how easy it is ... LOL
frenchmydoodle   +1y
yes i'm pretty much rich now. :)
thacru78   +1y
Lmao at this thread. Lol
frenchmydoodle   +1y
well i think it's pretty fucked up i asked a question, never really got an explanation, and just flamed....and taylor i said pipe, you know what i mean tubing or whatever....pretty fucked up when i've bought from you before when you were at blf, and really like your mmw stuff you were always awesome at what you do.
retro dime   +1y
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frenchmydoodle said:

well i think it's pretty fucked up i asked a question, never really got an explanation, and just flamed....and taylor i said pipe, you know what i mean tubing or whatever....pretty fucked up when i've bought from you before when you were at blf, and really like your mmw stuff you were always awesome at what you do.

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What did you expect with such an ignorant post? Pretty sure Chris (unusualfab) explained it for you...
thacru78   +1y
There's a huge difference between making backyard "pipe" control arms and making production quality arms. I've built full frames, full front suspensions, etc. With my HF tools and a few nice tools. But I don't mass produce arms because I don't have the tools to make a high enough quality part...efficiently enough to make it worth my while. People who buy fabricated parts have a very high standard. And if the arms aren't done right...we've all seen the mayhem they can make. I.e. Barnyard Customs. It's not as easy as you think man...specially when your talking about parts as quality as what MMW is putting out. I can make just about anything I want to...and I'm buying my arms from Taylor...because I don't have the resources to make them as nice as he can.
phat phabrikationz   +1y
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frenchmydoodle said:

well i think it's pretty fucked up i asked a question, never really got an explanation, and just flamed....and taylor i said pipe, you know what i mean tubing or whatever....pretty fucked up when i've bought from you before when you were at blf, and really like your mmw stuff you were always awesome at what you do.

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I bet you are best friends with the dude that wants free parts/sponsorship from airbagit.com, aren't you?:D
thomasd   +1y
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frenchmydoodle said:

well i think it's pretty fucked up i asked a question, never really got an explanation, and just flamed....and taylor i said pipe, you know what i mean tubing or whatever....pretty fucked up when i've bought from you before when you were at blf, and really like your mmw stuff you were always awesome at what you do.

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YES YOU DID ... open your eyes and read the whole thread ....!!!