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rlove2908

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I have been invoiced 17 hours labor to replace the four seat rails in my 172. Does this seem like too much to anyone but me?
 
rlove2908 said:
I have been invoiced 17 hours labor to replace the four seat rails in my 172. Does this seem like too much to anyone but me?
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Yes I do them and charge for 8 hours ( If you help it's 24)
 
rlove2908 said:
I have been invoiced 17 hours labor to replace the four seat rails in my 172. Does this seem like too much to anyone but me?
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sounds too much, I charge $60 an hour, and it probably takes 5 hours to do this job.
 
ChrisS said:
Just out of interest can you break that 8 hours down for me?
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I Don't usually break down during work..


I charge 50 per hour, for working discrepancies.
 
Thanks guys.
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I know they are a real nuisance. Getting the old ones out is difficult, then they have to use them to line up the holes on the new ones. I watched the guy do it in my 182 several years ago. Although 17 hours seems WAY too much, it does take a good bit of time. But 4+ hours for each rail?? Sounds about double what it should take to me.
 
Yeah, late to the party but it's a little much. I haven't done a full set but did do one quite recently, took a little over an hour (think I invoiced 1.25) of my time and I had to enlist the help of my thin armed boss for about half an hour to buck a couple of the rivets I couldn't cram my arms into the floor quite far enough to reach.

So if I were to do a full set of 4 I'd probably fall between the two estimates of 5 and 8 hours, but I think that 2hrs per is a good guess ahead of time to leave some room for a SNAFU that isn't of my doing.
 
Skylane81E said:
Yeah, late to the party but it's a little much. I haven't done a full set but did do one quite recently, took a little over an hour (think I invoiced 1.25) of my time and I had to enlist the help of my thin armed boss for about half an hour to buck a couple of the rivets I couldn't cram my arms into the floor quite far enough to reach.

So if I were to do a full set of 4 I'd probably fall between the two estimates of 5 and 8 hours, but I think that 2hrs per is a good guess ahead of time to leave some room for a SNAFU that isn't of my doing.
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I do a couple sets per year, the trick to the most rearward 2 holes on each track are #5 rivets, you can't get a bucking bar heavy enough in the hole to buck a #5, so they get a AN525-6 screw and a ms 210XX-3 nut.
 
My issue is the front ones, I have long arms so the distance between my elbow and wrist is non condusive to those rivets.

Oddly I can get the rear ones, perhaps for the same reason I can't get the fronts, ionno but it works
 
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