I had a plumbing bar that was your typical material, brass, coated with nickle or zinc etc to give…read morea stainless finish, as most plumbing finishes are. I mention this as the handle was about 0.325 inches diameter solid soft brass. It was too long and I needed it shorter.
Instead of using a hack saw to cut and sand it myself, I thought to take it to a place that has things setup, the stuff in place, and he can easily cut it. I found him in the business center while I was having somee other work done by another shop. Terry charged me $60 for that 1 cut. Something anyone could have done in about 5-15 minutes, without the setup!. He said, well its hard to get everything right, bla, bla, bla , when I asked why such a high price. His answers were unfounded. Its not like he coated the brass with SS finish, lol.
Years later I needed a number of large thick walled posts cut down from 12ft to a shorter length. I made sure not to bother with JayTech. I found a shop on Plummer, off of Desoto and they took these heavy steel posts about 5" in diameter and made the cuts for the same price on 3 pieces of what this guy changed me on a single, less than half inch soft metal. Clean, nice work.
I am sure JayTech does decent work, but is as decent a BS ripoff.
If he didn't want to do it, or he doesn't deal with cutting, etc he could have just said so, or direct me to someplace that does cut, etc.
I have worked around such fabrication shops, and to this day , I wont forget what a rip-off this guy was for him to take advantage.
Its not the $ per-say, its the way he went about it. He withheld any idea of what it would cost when I asked before hand, and then did the work, and wanted $60. ...lol...funny now.
