Originally Posted by
noglider
$60, wow, that's a lot less than I thought it would be!
My local frame builder offers pretty decent rates on these kinds of repairs... and he does house calls.
You'd have to add the cost of new dropouts if you were looking to replace them and this is actually a little less work than repairing a dropout as the fitting is easier.
He brought me a custom made touring fork for that Miyata 1000 and thought $120.00 was a steep price... before he started building frames he was a machinist and engineer so can fabricate almost anything and has his own powder coating shop.
He also builds his own cartridge bearing hubs which are outstanding... I plan to build some wheels around his hubs for my touring bike at some point.