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A bronze C932 bushing with a bore and relief groove costs $327.07 for one, $46.01 each at 10, and $24.93 each at 100 pieces. Setup and bore inspection dominate a short run; repeat turning and stock take over as quantity rises.
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The Bronze C932 bushing example part
The worked bushing is a two-inch spacer with a drilled center and one groove. A production bushing may need a reamed or honed bore, oil grooves, a press fit and a surface-finish callout. Those details are intentionally left as explicit options rather than guessed from the word “bushing.”
How the quantity break works
Bronze C932 is priced as bar stock with its own density and machinability. Our pricing engine charges the material the shop buys, not just the finished volume. Saw kerf, bar minimums and a customer-supplied blank can change the stock line, so keep those assumptions with the quote.
What the material or process changes
Ten pieces carry the lathe setup almost intact. At 100 and 1,000, setup is spread and the cycle becomes the main unit cost. Swiss turning may change the route for small diameters; a second table or a live-tooling page is a better comparison than a blanket volume discount.
How to turn this into a firm quote
State the bore size, fit, length, concentricity, material condition and inspection gauge. If the buyer changes from bronze to stainless, rerun our pricing engine so the cost and cycle change together.
Questions to settle before release
Ask for bore fit, concentricity, groove form, lubrication, material condition and gauge plan before pricing a bushing. Confirm whether the customer accepts a turned bore or needs reaming or honing. At 1,000 pieces, bar yield and chip handling can matter more than the setup. Record the selected material and route so a stainless substitution is a measured rerun, not an arbitrary surcharge.
For this custom bushing cost estimate, when the job is urgent, show the schedule impact separately from the price. A rush setup, outside-service expedite or second machine may change lead days and cost in different ways. Naming those choices lets the buyer decide what to trade. The base table remains useful because it records the ordinary US small-shop route before urgency is added.
For the bushing, decide whether the bore is turned, reamed or honed before promising a fit. The final release should preserve the drawing revision, stock source and inspection decision with the computed table.
Pricing engine output for the stated Bronze C932 (SAE 660) CNC turning example part
- • Material: Bronze C932 (SAE 660); the US catalog stores its small-lot price and machinability factor.
- • Process: CNC turning; setup, machine time, deburring and inspection are generated from the example-part geometry.
- • Markup: 30% default US catalog markup; quantities are 1, 10, 100.
- • Fictional 2 in turned part from 1.5 in bar; one drilled end hole and one groove.
- • No outside finish, tax, freight, or customer-specific rate is included.
- • These are computed examples, not supplier quotes or market averages.
| Qty | Setup min (lot) | Cycle min (part) | Cost / part | Quoted / part | Lot price | Lead days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 123.3 | 3.4 | $251.59 | $327.07 | $327.07 | 9 |
| 10 | 123.3 | 3.4 | $35.39 | $46.01 | $460.10 | 9 |
| 100 | 123.3 | 3.4 | $19.18 | $24.93 | $2493.00 | 10 |
Sources and limits
Claims are dated where they can change. Product calculations are examples from the stated inputs, not a promise about a customer's quote. Competitor wording is attributed to the source shown.
- The figures are computed from the stated example part and US catalog assumptions.
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