Engine decking issue(help)

JBurch said

OMM, I hope your son stops and says a prayer to God, every time he powers up that machine, thanking him for the blind dumb luck that allowed him to buy that machine for $12,500.00, THAT is why he can deck a block for $200.00. There are a lot of shops that can't afford to pony up the $140,000.00 for a new machine, they just don't do that much business; your son couldn't do $200.00 deck jobs if he had to make payments on a $140,000.00 loan.

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This x1000

I was going to mention that in my response and left it alone. Getting a machine for less than a regular shop on a 10 year loan would be paying yearly in principle only is just incredible luck. Every shop that has one would be so lucky.

You can buy a boatload of tooling for 100k. lol

Same with my grandfather and Father, they designed and manufactured things for NASA, rockwell, rocketdyne over the years and never had a cnc machine anywhere.