I originally bought my PCNC1100 purely to prototype parts and to do small production runs for OEM electronics products. It's been great, and a customer has recently asked me to do some mechanical design work/ production for them. It's a great opportunity, but I really have no idea how to quote him for these parts. There's obviously the time it takes to make each part, but how do you account for other factors? I have $20,000 of machinery and the knowledge to do something useful with it, that's definitely gonna factor into my cost. I have to make fixtures, toolpaths, etc and lots of other things that don't factor into the machine time of a part as well. How do you guys do it? What do you think is a fair amount to charge per hour of machine time?

Thanks!