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I'm not offering my services on here(not yet anyway), but I'm just curious what people would find an acceptable cost for repairing an AEG. Not necessarily upgrading it, but replacing broken parts etc.
Example. I have my teammates gun it stopped working after I think 3-4 years of use. Now this is a base echo-1 gun and all he was really looking to do was to repair. I took it apart and found a broken air nozzle, the wrong cylinder inner barrel combination, the trigger contacts were worn out, and the bucking was worn out. (he had a LOT of feeding issues if you can't tell)
I already quoted him on the parts so he knows that total and he decided to go ahead and replace everything I had mentioned above which totaled out to be $23.50 after shipping.
I was just thinking a flat rate of 10 to replace any parts not including electrical components and gears. Also included with this I would clean all the parts and grease, then teflon where applicable.
To replace electrical components an extra 5 because wiring is a bit more tedious especially with certain guns.
Gears an extra 10 because at least for me to get a good shimming it takes me about an hour to an hour and a half.
Any other work such as AOE, R-hops, flat hops, hop up shimming, and things of that nature I have no idea how to price out though.
Am I not charging enough or should I just leave things the way I have it for the time being.
Example. I have my teammates gun it stopped working after I think 3-4 years of use. Now this is a base echo-1 gun and all he was really looking to do was to repair. I took it apart and found a broken air nozzle, the wrong cylinder inner barrel combination, the trigger contacts were worn out, and the bucking was worn out. (he had a LOT of feeding issues if you can't tell)
I already quoted him on the parts so he knows that total and he decided to go ahead and replace everything I had mentioned above which totaled out to be $23.50 after shipping.
I was just thinking a flat rate of 10 to replace any parts not including electrical components and gears. Also included with this I would clean all the parts and grease, then teflon where applicable.
To replace electrical components an extra 5 because wiring is a bit more tedious especially with certain guns.
Gears an extra 10 because at least for me to get a good shimming it takes me about an hour to an hour and a half.
Any other work such as AOE, R-hops, flat hops, hop up shimming, and things of that nature I have no idea how to price out though.
Am I not charging enough or should I just leave things the way I have it for the time being.