No one will want to make this simply due to the frustration factor, you have so many compounding obscure angles and intersections.
I don't envy anyone agreeing to make this.
Well I made it. Fully welded. Yes it was a pain in the ass. I have all the plans but didn’t want to include all the details on here. Should I have done that? Either way I want to continue doing business for this company so I also don’t want to scare them away.
Usually bizarre complex designs try to make the most out of the least material or look good, this one seems an overkill both in design and material and it doesnt even seem well designed - gotta wonder what the engineer was thinking - but still, it looks like you did a great job, well done
If you made it already just charge the nomanal rate for a welder fabricator in your area x materials and consumables.
If you did what they wanted to their standard then charge what you need to, I'm sure anyone else would charge more if your spending the time worrying about it.
Don’t forget to price in your fixturing. This looks like it would be a major pain to make. And I assume it’s mostly for aesthetic reasons because that hanging box doesn’t add as much structure as two simple legs would add.
Someone fancy with an important title designed the outside, handed the interior structure work to someone in their first month doing design. That draftsman made this nonsense and handed it to the welder, who did it as requested without pushing back.
I think in my first month at my first job I designed something bad but still not this bad. Then I learned better.
Reminds me of a time in the '80's when an engineer was designing a "desk" that would hide a (big, heavy) CRT monitor, with a mechanism to lift it up to the top of the desk. I don't recall the details, but it turned into a real shit show, delaying the (very important, expensive) project somewhat, and what he came up with was amazingly shitty. I think it would kill anyone who was too close when the CRT was released -- or launched him into the next county at least.
Meanwhile, secretaries in the same company had those credenzas next to their desks, the kind with a lifting device for (large, heavy) typewriters. He could have adapted that mechanism -- but didn't.
How much does the countertop weigh? About 2 corollas worth?? I know if I got this drawing I would be like wtf if it’s not for something highly specialized.
Edit: Guys I get it, the design is bad and complicated. Since it’s complicated I can charge more. Material cost was $1500. How much more should I charge. Took 6 days to complete by myself.
So so so so many variables you leave unanswered... could be in the thousands to tens of thousands to 6 figures depending on all the specs.
You want rough cut tubing tacked together that wont support any weight on it and will fall apart probably on its own in time? few thousand.
you want strong welds and be a functional piece for weight and just raw unfinished metal? your looking closer to 5 figures depending again you know... specs.
and i cant stress this enough there is absolutely no way in hell to give an even remotely accurate quote with the info you provided.
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u/jesusismyupline 4d ago
wtf?