Last July, I posted off some retirement funds to purchase a True Line 8 attachment for my column mill, then a few days later, the amount required for postage, yup, seen the youtube vid on this great piece of local engineering. I am a patient person, having lived in the Pilbara for over 20 years, understand that you can not walk into a store, see what you want and buy it, you had to wait, sometimes a month at the max, usually a few weeks.

I sent this chap who advertised his product, a few emails asking about when I would receive my attachment, no reply. My thinking, he runs a business, busy, that's all it is, nothing to worry about. 2018 came and went, late February 2019, I sent another email, asking, only this time, my patience had been exhausted, with a small amount of sarcasm, I received a prompt reply with a photo of said attachment wrapped up and ready for posting, yay.

Ok, what I received, is not what was advertised on said youtube video, clearly this fellow has given the maching job to a junior apprentice.

I received a piece of aluminimum bar stock with vice marks crunched into it, the end that is supposed to slide through the fixed block of some kind of dense plastic, which I might add, has been roughly hewn and machined incorrectly, the groove that the column mount is affixed to has been machined undersize to the actual mount that is supposed to fit, also measured that, fat at one end, thin at the other.

Even the long piece of aluminium flat bar that is supposed to slide easily through the fixed block is to large to do that width wise.

No use complaining, took 7 months just to get a reply. Mmmmmmmm, maybe I could buy a block of this stuff, and cut it out with a hacksaw, probably do better then the original piece, after all, all the fancy 3phrase tools in one's workshop and this is the end product, maybe even use some fencing wire to tie it all together, hey PDW.

I once saw a movie, the Fastest Indian, where on a mantle piece in his workshop (no sure about that), the rider had a pile of failed pistons offered to the gods of speed. I have something similar, naming mine (stupidity in trust).

I do have pics, 21 of them in all, measuring the grooves that are critical to keeping the column straight when moving it up and down.

DD


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