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  1. clparks

    Advice needed - starting a one man process skid shop

    Jim > Thanks, I sure appreciate it. This may need to be a small time side project until I can ramp it up to a strong business. Get rich slowly is what I'm looking for. Agreed on the piles of good advice, thanks guys.
  2. clparks

    Advice needed - starting a one man process skid shop

    David > Thanks man - good stuff to consider.
  3. clparks

    Advice needed - starting a one man process skid shop

    TygerDawg > What I am doing right now is simulating a year of day to day work taking into account all streams of revenue/taxes/etc... as an engineer naturally would. How I do this is I built 9 plain skids, logged the hours it took to do specs, design, purchasing, parts delivery, all that. It's...
  4. clparks

    Advice needed - starting a one man process skid shop

    The problem I keep going over in my head is the service/sales calls getting me out of the shop. On the one hand, I want to do one project at a time. The problem with that is consistency. Doing two or more at once wouldn't be too hard by myself but I'm sure I'll miss delivery deadlines every...
  5. clparks

    Advice needed - starting a one man process skid shop

    I grew up in machine shops, did sea time on submarines, and worked for years as a designer. I've been lucky enough to have worked with/under some excellent mentoring engineers when I was younger. Here lately I'm thinking that I would be better off both in my bank account and personal...
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