Thread: Machining hotrod parts---

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mopar 34---No, seriously, you couldn't sell these things for enough money to pay for the time it takes to build them on a manual lathe. If you were set up with a CNC lathe, or maybe a screw machine, and made them it lot runs of 50 or 100, then just maybe you would hit a "break even" point. However, it takes the best part of an hour to make one, it requires a $1500 minimum lathe and tooling, plus the cost of raw material. If you sold them for enough money to pay for the aformentioned overhead, plus the electricity, plus the costs involved with keeping a warm dry environment for the lathe, then you would have to charge $50 for a part that is really not worth more than $5 and that there is only very, very occasional demand for.

I've had similar requests on camaro boards for the set of billet aluminum door hinges I built for the "Z". The design time alone made them impractical.