(sit down, gram what ever to drink........) even with the economy in a slump, i seem to find i am even busier than before (checking and proofing others work for me). because of that, i find i don't have much time at all for doing much on the Tiger other than working things out on paper for some others to go by. a few weeks ago, i went down the street from me to a metal fabricator and gave them a set of drawings for the arms for the road wheels. it wasn't nothing hard, it was drawn out to full size and had all the needed measurements. all they had to do was follow it. then the pc's main hard drive crashed and that started a domino effect setting everything back until the other week where i caught up (mainly on money borrowed) and had the funds to get the Tiger's road wheel arms made, so last week, i stopped it, made sure they still had my drawings i gave them and told them to put the order for the parts in as i'm ready for them. then my cat got sick, some sort of urinary track infection and they thought he might have been blocked and could have cost me up to $1,000. i was lucky and so far it's just an infection + spasms. so i still had my play money in pocket. this morning before i took the cat back to the vest for a follow-up check up, i heard on the answering machine, the parts are done and it's $175.50 (i waited to hear my mother start to have a fit.....it never came). so....... i just went down to the metal shop, the box of parts where there on the secretary's desk. i gave them a quick look, paid for them and was just sitting down in the truck. something told me to look at them before i pulled away. the ends were to have been rounded over - it looks like an amateur knocked the corners off with a angle grinder. not the sort of finish i was hoping to see, but thought it wouldn't take anything to take it to my belt sander (bench-top mounted) and clean them up just a bit. then i saw how the threaded hole was a bit closer to the end that what i was expecting, but thought, maybe the made the arm itself a bit shorter overall. they didn't and the hole was in the wrong spot, so i got back out of the truck, went in and showed it to the girl at the desk. we even checked my measurements on the paper to make sure it wasn't a goof i made and over looked. nope, my drawings and spec's were fine, the threaded hole was off by 1/8". she sat the part on the paper and said, look, it's right, i showed he the threaded hole and how you could see how the hole i had drawn on the paper didn't match. i need up getting my money back (hell, i wasn't going to pay for something that is just wrong). now to see what happens Monday when either they call me or i go down (thinking of giving them a box of crayons and a coloring book for trying). it looks like they may have went with 64 rather than 32 of an inch when making the one measurement. but overall with the grind marks and the really rough corners, it looks like an amateur worked on it for his first days work. i was really hoping for so much better quality as i was looking to offered other arms for anyone in here as sets - but now........... Chris
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