Only be here for a while. Got some busted machinery we dropped off a little while ago that will probably take until noon to get back so we can all get back to work.
Getting to the point that every piece of machinery I work around is older than I am, so we’re either constantly tearing stuff apart to fix things BEFORE they break or go to Panic Stations when we guess wrong and the unbreakable bits do actually break after all.
New machinery??? LOL. Spend more time fixing that Joe Chinaman crap than you do running it, not to mention the mystical semi-disappearing Spare Parts and Maintenance agreements. “Fill out 40 pieces of paper, send ‘em all off and after a six to eight week silence, finally find out that nobody at the damn factory made the thing knows Jack.”
(Don’t mind me. I’m pi$$ed off, still haven’t got all the grease and dirt off and will probably spend another half-hour pickin’ metal shavings and nursing busted knuckles. Boo &*Y^&^&%%in’ hoo.)
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By the way, good morning and thanks for the ping.
We have the same problem with equipment. I have 40 rod turners. Each one has to be replaced about once a year. They raise the price every other time I buy. They used to be $19.95 two years ago now the are $36.00.
So many bad companies selling bad stuff its scary.