BUDDY
1/2 ton status
I'm not a paying customer and he has to keep his paying customers happy. The whole reason for the cheap deal was getting the machine time for nearly nothing and always being at the end of the line if something came up... that also left me in a position of not being able to use another shop because the labor/machine time alone would be double what I charged for the arms
Right now your money worth of steel is sitting there cut to length... just wouldn't do much good to try and bolt it on yetBut if your ready to take your money to one of the vendors that have these already on a shelf I'd be happy to refund your money as well.
I don't mind waiting either, but my question is - does you're FIL's shop work 24-7? I mean is there anyway that you could get some time outside of his business hours to tear this off for us? I also think if you told one of his machinist's what it is you're looking to get done, you could work a deal on the side with him, (with you're FIL's foreknowledge and blessing of course). I don't know, get creative & barter a service in exchange for his work.
Just trying to grease the wheels some here.
Later,
Buddy

But if your ready to take your money to one of the vendors that have these already on a shelf I'd be happy to refund your money as well.