Hi I just finished building a cnc plasma table, well shouldn't say finished but its up and running any how
I manage a small machine shop the plasma table was a side project, and I mentioned it to one of my customers and he brought me a fair sized job to bid out of 1-1/2" plate. So I am going to quickly add oxy fuel to handle the thicker plate but not sure the best way to calculate cost. I have run some numbers a few different ways figuring time and shop rate and I come up with about 20-25 cents per inch but after doing some research in the internet I found a governmental report showing cost of oxy fuel for 1" plate being about $1.05 per inch which seems outrageous to me.
So my question is am I in the ballpark with my figures. That and what methods do others use to figure cost for oxy fuel cutting?
sorry just not enough experience with oxy fuel on machine torches.
thanks for any help
also I will probably be using propane but not set in stone yet