Hey Rossco, that was only the deposit you paid, I'm still waiting for the other 3 installments
Seriously though you hit the nail on the head, it's a $ per effort factor. Painting will add quite a few hundred dollars to the price, but if I charged $1000.00 - $1200.00 for a tank I doubt that I would be given any to do, I allways get the feeling that most guys don't want to pay exorbitant amounts & just want a fair job for a fair price.
Mind you, if I charged 4 times as much I would only need to work 1/4 of the time.
How good a tank comes up also depends on what shape it's in to start with & yours had already been repaired by me 10 years earlier. Quickies tank for instance, that has been blown up with pressure may come back into shape but may also look a bit different to a perfect tank. A good tank with a few simple dents will come up easier/better than one thats been trashed badly. Elsinore tanks are hard to split at the seams too as the front mount holes are multi layers welded together, otherwise the seams usually come apart reasonably easy, but creates a lot of work to put back together.
Were the Elsinore tanks normally a brushed satin finish or a mirror finish
i siad on the thread that you yanks can have a holiday in australia and get you tank done by gmc for the said 1800.00 us.
jim
Or they could shout me a holiday over their & I could repair their tank for them
