BRONSON Engineering Company The ultimate all in one personalized & integrated solution to your unique technical problems.
Terms of Use It is impossible to accurately describe my terms of use without describing how and why I work. Mark Twain is reported to have said that fun is work which we are not obligated to do. Far too many people regard fun as fun and work as a four-letter word. For me, I simply cannot locate the line between fun and work, using the brain is always fun.
Business Work When I am tasked to assist business or personal clients to solve their problems, it is almost always by referral from other friends or businesses who have used my services. I work in a uniquely different way from specialists and when using a specialist for a project makes good economic sense, I am the first to recommend it to clients. I am the best choice when your project must be seamlessly integrated with your needs and ways of doing things. Putting myself in your shoes-When I accept a project on your behalf, I open my mental eyes to your big picture make your project my own and routinely attend to peripheral details that specialists ignore, especially relating to fit & finish with surrounding equipment or structures. I personally hate it when a specialist cobbles up things surrounding a project and then tells me if I wanted perfection, it would have cost more. Work at Hourly Rate-I work at my hourly rate of $85 billed & due weekly portal to portal my shop in High Ridge Missouri. I also bill mileage, expenses & parts at my cost with no markups. Wherever possible I encourage clients to put parts expenses on their personal charge cards for bonus points and I routinely use customer furnished parts or in house labor to keep routine work cheaper. A good example of economy is a recent installation of an emergency generator at a client site. The area behind his carriage house was overgrown with brush, blocking my installation route. A handy man had promised to clear it away for $150, but never showed up. I told my client I would take care of it and he Protested that I am $85 an hour. I brought my chain saw & cutters along the next morning and within ten minutes had all the brush in the rented dumpster. His cost at $85 an hour was a mere $8.50 and the generator went in ahead of schedule with the cleaned up area. Contact Me for consultation if my way of working makes sense to you and we can discuss matters of cost. I can and do give fixed estimates, but my flowing work at hourly rate is always far cheaper.
Hobby StuffWhen I release step-by-step narratives of my hobby items, they are intended to be used only for study, amusement and educational purposes. Each item depicts as accurately as I can the exact things I did, how & why I did them that way and what my results were. I do not suggest or recommend building anything I have built nor claim any intended result. Many people buy plans or narratives, read them like a book and put them on their shelf. This is perfectly fine as it satisfies our human curiosity as to how things work. On the other hand, many of us are so visually and tactile driven that we can’t resist actually building a copy of what someone else did and see if we can at least duplicate their results or better-yet improve upon them. It is the drive to take the risks to create that motivates some of us and buying access to study the work of others is great fun (and you don’t have to put up with them) All of my items are strictly for your intellectual enjoyment and come with no warranties or implication of usability. They are merely my best attempts to accurately depict, illustrate and reasonably support how I do my own work.