Most companies, real companies require suppliers to be qualified to do
> the work. Qualifying usually has to do with proving they are a
> business and posses the equipment, tools and expertise to perform the
> tasks up to company standards. Which quite often precludes contracting
> with a home hobby shop filled with a clapped-out equipment.
>
> It's one thing if you are making your own product or prototype but
> quite another to qualifying to do work for others. With few exceptions
> a home hobby shop will be competing with other home shops cutting each
> others throats to split a penny. Home shops are not Low Cost, Low
> Overhead locations, they are LOW PAY Shops, get it as cheap as they > can Locations.
>
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> Tom
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I agree. The more lucrative work requires things like ISO certification which a garage shop can never get. Even the places that don't require certification do require things like inspection reports. Even repair work requires knowledge & expertise to get the job done right. I like that way of thinking....low pay shops.