I have been approached somewhat, by a steady customer/employer, that wants to lease my shop, equipment etc.... I essentially am captive to them anyway, but leasing eliminates a lot of the headaches associated with quoting, scheduling, invoicing& billing, and a whole raft of other thorny issues. I have a small shop with a pair of well-maintained, very accurate Mori-Seikis. A MV-JR VMC and and AL-20 lathe, with all the rest of the support stuff, etc... and a couple zillion invested in tooling. Strickly prototyping, and design & build test & tooling fixturing. So the real question is: How much to establish for a reasonable monthly lease agreement. 2 machines + shop overhead + specialized tooling ???/month? I don't want to gouge these guys, cause this is a very long term customer, but I don't want to come up short every month either.
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