Rebuilding a machine
- Thread starter Hotwaterwizard
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From trash to treasure! Good looking work.
Russ Spence
Commercial Pressure Wash Expert
Looks Nice Dude
Paul Kassander
New member
I am just curious, do you find it difficult to make any money rebuilding used machines for sale? It just seems that new ones are so cheap now it must be tough to compete. By the way you did an outstanding job on thet machine it looks great, you even got the stickers on there, impressive.
Hotwaterwizard
Hotsy Service Tech
Here is how you make money on a rebuilt machine.
First you get the machine as a trade in. You discount the new one for a trade in value. The discount comes right off of the list price of the new machine. So you will still make money on the sale of the new machine at the get go.
Now you have a machine that has mostly good parts. You strip it down and paint it and replace the bad parts and most of the time you put a new coil on just because it is old. The average total rebuild takes 20 to 30 hours if it is done right. A quick turn takes about 8 to 10.
So you add up the hours spent and the parts used and figure out how much to sell it for. The money you make would be equivelent to an actual repair if someone brought the machine in. You just provide the machine and they pay for all of the labor and parts to repair it.
First you get the machine as a trade in. You discount the new one for a trade in value. The discount comes right off of the list price of the new machine. So you will still make money on the sale of the new machine at the get go.
Now you have a machine that has mostly good parts. You strip it down and paint it and replace the bad parts and most of the time you put a new coil on just because it is old. The average total rebuild takes 20 to 30 hours if it is done right. A quick turn takes about 8 to 10.
So you add up the hours spent and the parts used and figure out how much to sell it for. The money you make would be equivelent to an actual repair if someone brought the machine in. You just provide the machine and they pay for all of the labor and parts to repair it.
Tim Mcculla
Tim McCulla
hey john, good thing you put "before" and "After" on the pics - I would have never figured that out. Just kidding, very fine work!
Paul Kassander
New member
I can tell it is a job that you enjoy because your work is very nice. The before pic looks like some of my machines after my guys come back from jobs sometimes. LOL
Russ Spence
Commercial Pressure Wash Expert
this was a good post
MrSqueegee
New member
Are you sure the before and after aren't mixed up? The nice one is before, the after is after you blew it up with a stick of dynomite. HaHa
Nice job!
Russ Spence
Commercial Pressure Wash Expert
I never looked at it that way but funny