DX-100/SB-xxx/HW-xxx build times

[Pat Bunsold]

WOW!  Now THATS a job to dream about!  Builder for hiire!!! Most of us paid dearly just for the priveledge of building a Heathkit yet some people get Paid to do it!  I got a job in electronics and started to be an assembler, but there was better money in being a technician.  So I get to fix the mistakes the assemblers make.  With a Heathkit, you get to be the Assembler AND the Technician, to find out what you wired wrong after its built.  But nowadays, robotics build all the stuff and there is very few jobs for electronics assemblers.  Those jobs that still exist are being shipped overseas where they will work for a $1 a day and a bowl of rice!  My wife is just about to get laid off for that reason.  So I sure wish I could open the Sunday paper and find a listing: "WANTED, Electronics savy person to build HEATHKITS for me. Call XXX-XXXX."  Now THATS a job to DIE for!!!
"---- Brian Wood <wood at LPBROADBAND.NET> wrote: 
> Thanks to all who responded. One said 20-30 hours and one said "an entire
> summer"! But the general consensus from the others was 40 hours. That is,
> coincidentally, how long it took Alan Wilcox, our "builder-for-hire", to
> build the DZKit Sienna. It seemed like a long time, so I wanted to see how
> it compared with the rigs of yore. Glad to hear that the time was that long!
> That should put to rest the notion that you can't save money by building
> something yourself. At the going labor rates, 40 hours translates to at
> least $400, maybe even $1000. Even pre-assembled boards have some labor
> content in them, since it is not free to have machinery load and solder the
> boards and it is also not free to test them. In the low volume world of ham
> radio products, I think the DIY paradigm is still valid. 
> 
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> 73,
> 
> Brian, W0DZ
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Pat Bunsold WA6MHZ
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