you ain't kidd'n!
What's in the mail?
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You're right!!
you are correct i have no idea what that is about
Why not just make the zero clearance inserts? We always made them from 5/8" MDF. Even got fancy once in a while and drilled out four holes for Allen set screws to level them but you could usually do fine with a few pieces of masking tape &/or a chip of formica.
Getting the snow blower ready?
Apparently, you ain't Southern.
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The inserts for the Laguna are kind complex, not simple like my craftsman was. Just easier to buy one at this time, got lots of other things I've been working on.
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Compliments of UPS. We run the roughest ship in the shipping business!
I can't believe this thing wasn't damaged and all the parts where there.
Here's a pretty good hit......
Massive hole in the top...... handle blown out and tape seam popped.......
So big you can see the motor........
Dropped on this corner pretty hard, blew the box out and cracked the foam.
Same corner on the bottom......
Block of foam on top was cracked in half.
And these idiots just left it at my house, no signature, and no way they would deliver it to a ups store, believe me I tried very hard for that.
But amazingly it appears to be undamaged and all the parts are there, pure luck is all.
I can't believe this thing wasn't damaged and all the parts where there.
Here's a pretty good hit......
Massive hole in the top...... handle blown out and tape seam popped.......
So big you can see the motor........
Dropped on this corner pretty hard, blew the box out and cracked the foam.
Same corner on the bottom......
Block of foam on top was cracked in half.
And these idiots just left it at my house, no signature, and no way they would deliver it to a ups store, believe me I tried very hard for that.
But amazingly it appears to be undamaged and all the parts are there, pure luck is all.
This is nuts. I’m thinking of a few choice words.
Shipping by usps, FedEx, and etc has become as dependable as a methhead in my opinion. Have a generator setting 21 miles from the house and FedEx
hasn’t giving a delivery date yet nor can I go pick it up. By the way been sitting there now for five days.
hasn’t giving a delivery date yet nor can I go pick it up. By the way been sitting there now for five days.
What the hell? UPS hires the guys who flunk out of airport luggage handling school? You're making me nervous. I just sent a fly rod I built to a buddy via UPS. The two ladies in the store were great and brought out extra tape and packing paper to make sure it wouldn't rattle around in the box.
Looks like the box my lathe came in 4 years ago. Of course I wasn't as lucky as you, mine had chunks of cast iron missing off the feet on the tailstock end.
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The sad part is that in todays times you just cant go to the store and get what you want, you have to order it and most times wait weeks or months for it to arrive. And then it goes through the shipping company and they carelesly handle it like this. I bet if it was their item they would treat it differently. I think I got lucky this time, but I haven't had the chance to check everything out on it yet. But from the initial exam it looks to be ok.
Nice thing with my lathe, I didn't have to deal with UPS, just emailed some pictures to the vendor. They shipped another the next day and issued a return pickup for the same day as the new delivery.
That's the same guy I got my branding iron from, good guy to deal with.
Well the update to day was it would be delivered by 8 tonight at 6 the FedEx truck arrived, drivers load list stated he had a package to deliver but there was no package on board. Would be kind of hard to lose a 99 lb 28x18x19 package.
That sounds exactly the same as when we ordered a new oven from Costco. We got multiple emails confirming delivery day and telling us what to do if we wanted to haul the old one away, etc. That day arrived and we got a phone call from a lady in Georgia asking us how we liked our oven. I told her I don't know, it isn't here. She gave me some platitude and hung up. Later that evening we get an email saying they don't know where our oven is. I called Costco customer service and complained I had already removed the old over per their instructions so now what was I supposed to do. They ended up finding the oven in their warehouse when they thought it was on the truck. Not sure how that can happen when they bar code read everything.
Ok, what purpose are they? Snowblower - I ain't never seen!
Two years ago I stopped any and all purchasing from several large companies that use only UPS (Useless Parcel Service) for their delivery. The level of incompetence at the local UPS warehouse is astounding. I admit it, I'm an oddball, I'll go out of my way to find stuff more locally, walk in and buy it, create a relationship with a business owner.
If I have to order it and a company has the option to choose Fedex or Post Office, I'll choose one of those and sure, they both have their occasional problems but it's the exception rather than the rule. If it's an important package and the company doesn't offer Fedex or USPS, I go elsewhere. And I've found a number of smaller, family operated businesses I'd rather buy from anyway by doing this. I won't even look at Amazon anymore. It's become a "vote with your dollars" kind of world.
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@JerseyHighlander Trust me if I could have gone to a store here and purchased this thing I would have, none in stock anywhere. Around here the usps isn't any better. If Amazon delivers it themselves I usually don't have a problem.