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I am curious to see what folks have done / are doing for supplemental or full income with their equipment and skills . The area I live in (Dayton Ohio) has around 140,000 residents and somewhere close to 60 machine shops listed in the phone book. That's just the phone book, so I imagine that there are a fair bit more than 60 shops actually conducting business in some form or another.
I have dabbled with the idea of starting a hobby business, but I think I would rather make it product based instead of service based. I am under the impression that most people outside the machine tool world don't have an understanding of why custom made parts should cost more than 50 bucks to produce. Perhaps that's not entirely accurate.
So, I am currently settled with the idea that if I decide to start a hobby business, then I should do a product and try for e commerce so I am not trying to compete with every other shop in the city.
I would be interested to hear what members have done in the past and decisions that brought them to run a business the way they have .
I have dabbled with the idea of starting a hobby business, but I think I would rather make it product based instead of service based. I am under the impression that most people outside the machine tool world don't have an understanding of why custom made parts should cost more than 50 bucks to produce. Perhaps that's not entirely accurate.
So, I am currently settled with the idea that if I decide to start a hobby business, then I should do a product and try for e commerce so I am not trying to compete with every other shop in the city.
I would be interested to hear what members have done in the past and decisions that brought them to run a business the way they have .