Originally Posted by KarTek

Something that's always confused me is the price of re-builds on things like IP's. I wonder if it's anything like an auto tranny rebuild where they charge you $1200 to do it but in reality, it's not that difficult a job and the price is high because everyone is intimidated by the presumed complexity of it.

Once you have some training is it all that hard or are the shops trying to pay off all the expensive test equipment they bought to do the job? I'm not opposed to a place making a profit but sometimes it's excessive...