Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Hakko Dual Port Soldering Kit

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Alex Muñoz

Day
$5
Week
$20
28 days
$60

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $25. On the week rate it is $20.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $90. On the 28-day rate it is $60.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Hakko Dual Port Soldering Kit, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$5$5—day
2$10$10—day
3$15$15—day
4$20$20—day
5$25$20you save $5week
6$30$20you save $10week
7$35$20you save $15week
8$40$25you save $15week
9$45$30you save $15week
10$50$35you save $15week
11$55$40you save $15week
12$60$40you save $20week
13$65$40you save $25week
14$70$40you save $30week
15$75$45you save $30week
16$80$50you save $30week
17$85$55you save $30week
18$90$60you save $3028-day
19$95$60you save $3528-day
20$100$60you save $4028-day
21$105$60you save $4528-day
22$110$60you save $5028-day
23$115$60you save $5528-day
24$120$60you save $6028-day
25$125$60you save $6528-day
26$130$60you save $7028-day
27$135$60you save $7528-day
28$140$60you save $8028-day
29$145$65you save $80day
30$150$70you save $80day
31$155$75you save $80day
32$160$80you save $80day
33$165$80you save $85week
34$170$80you save $90week
35$175$80you save $95week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.