Originally Posted by Christian and Beccy
I need to have the flange machined on my Tubular Manifold. In my experience I find that Machine-shops usually moan about being not being able to clamp stuff as their excuse to charge you an arm and a leg. How easy is it to machine a manifold flange? Can I expect to have my pants pulled down?
Worse thing / most difficult thing about machining anything is the setup; holding the part securely .... even to the extreme that sometimes custom fixtures are needed to hold parts as there is no other way of doing them.
Guess it depends on the exact design of your manifold, something that can only be judged by actually seeing the part in question.