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I use a copper hammer, 4 pounder to be exact, never have to wire brush the spigot just spray some lube hit and spin.
I've been doing brakes for 11 years we machine in-house too. There's a reason we charge extra to do brakes because your boots and seals are inspected, slides cleaned, caliper brakets cleaned, aburtptment shims cleaned and inspected, hub face cleaned and brake fluid tested then system flushed if requied.
Pad slapping might work one time the next it could bite you with a seized slide and cause bad performance and increased pad and rotor wear.
Hummm, where have I mentioned pad slapping? There is no way in heck would I do a pad slap on my own car, let alone a paying customer
If you have never had to wire brush the hub, you've either never had a hub coated in crud, or you don't clean the hub when putting the rotor back on the hub. I can tell you, I have seen more than my fair share of hubs that are that caked, that there is no way in heck you can remove the rotor without cleaning it off
As for the extra charges.....Bit over the top....To me, this is part and parcel of doing the job properly and charging for the part replacements and labour involved in doing the job. All up, it should take no more than an hour to do all 4 brakes on a commodore so an hours labour chould be charged