Quote Originally Posted by SeanMurphy265 View Post
Keep up with what you charge fig welding because you can loose money quick! I have two 80 cf tanks and I can run through one pretty quick, at $40.00 a tank! My first paid tight job was a riveted aluminum boat and I lost my butt on that piece of crap.
First gig is for the guy who bought my 125 tank for me for helping weld up a frame break (it's in the project section) he way overpaid me. For this, he's covering a pound of filler and paying on top of that, I have no doubt he'll do me better than right. Others... did an exhaust tip job the other day, got $10, told him to give me what he thought was fair, figured he'd do ok since he was quoted $300 from the shop that did the exhaust. Lesson learned. Now:

$20 to get my gear out, $1 per tack, $1 per inch, plus whatever is fair in my tip jar

$30 or so to fill my 125, but it's a half hour drive each way.