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"Stephen R. Gregory" <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello Everybody!

     The only thing I don't like about 3-day weekends, is that ya' have to
come back to work. When ya' do, you feel like you're behind because of the
extra day off, but I guess that's normal. Had a nice weekend, sat home and
watched all the Daytona stuff...wanted my man DALE "The Intimidator" to win,
but second ain't too bad I guess. I guess he didn't intimidate Jeff Gordon
enough...that kid is awesome! I do believe he'll be one to break and set all
the NASCAR records before he's through. What he's done so far at age 27 is
amazing!

     Anyways, let's switch from NASCAR to jumper wires..(see how I smoothly
transitioned from one topic to another? hehehe...) Tried to do an archive
search on this just a bit ago, but the server ain't talking to me this morning
for some reason...(bad breath?)

    What I'd like to ask though, is how do ya'll quote jumpers? I've sat down
and tried to work things out in my head of how long it takes, but when it
comes time for the rubber to meet the road so to speak, (notice how I
continued with my Daytona 500 theme? Slick huh? hehehe..) I'm always off.
Things that I think are simple and shouldn't take much work, take longer than
I thought, or vice versa, things that I think will take some time the girls
will do in a snap.

     I really do put some thought into this, and I have timed what it takes to
do lets say; a simple 2", point to point wire with no crazy turns or anything.
What I use for figures are; 1) 15-seconds to cut and strip both ends of the
wire, 2) 15-20 seconds to solder each end, 3) Another 15-30 seconds to clean
and secure the wire down to the PCB. If there's any weird routing of the wire
needed (like from top to bottom, or a bunch of turns the wire needs to make)
I'll add another minute or two to each jumper to account for the added time
needed to route and secure the wire. Does this seem reasonable to ya'll?

     The reason I'm asking is that I'm quoting a rework only job (which I've
not done much of) and I don't know if I'm close on this one. This job is for
around 200 boards and will tie-up some of my best rework people while we do
this job, I just wanna be sure that we're getting what we should be getting
for this.

     The board has 37-pin lifts, 52 part adds (caps and resistors), and 85
jumper wires. The jumpers aren't anything complicated and most of them are to
and from 50-mil stuff...there's just a lot of them.

     I'm figuring that I'll be somewhere between $70 and $90...just gotta'
look at all the little details now. Does that sound like it'll fly from your
experiences?

Thanks ya'll!

-Steve "I'm up to my ears in wires" Gregory-

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