Weird thing afoot at carbatec!!!

**soundman** · 1st February 2005, 07:43 PM

As I am prone to do, I droped into carbatec the other day & picked up a few bits & pieces.
While I was there I saw a couple of weird things.
Now carbatec bris can be an interesting place particularly after geof has cleaned out his sample cupboard, you can see some real weird items on the bargin tables. Like a chainsaw ripping attachment for a hand circular saw :eek:.

Any way back to the point.
As usual I walk straight in the door & do a left turn into the clamp section, & lo & behold one of the weirdest, beefiest & possibly usefull clamp I've seen.
The new record/ irwin adjustable G clamp. Its built like a beefy G clamp but the bottom jaw mooves and locks very positively.
You could realy crank some preasure on with this puppy. & its built I recon a boilermaker would have difficulty breaking it.
Not cheap at about $36 but I'm thinking about a pair

Couldn't find any info on irwins web site as yet.

After my usual scour of the bargin tables & show room for bargins I wandered out the back into the machinery display & noticed this little band saw.
A bit funny looking and not very big, probably 12", It had a sliding table which I thaught was a little interesting. But it was the accessory that I thaught was interesting for a woodworking device.
Now I'v seen band saws with disc sanders and horisontal morticers grafted on the side but this one had.....

A sausage maker grafted to the side of it. What THE? :eek:
The stanless all over the place should have been the give away.
Seems there have been some enquiries about small butchers band saws!!!
No price on it yet. The bloke I spoke to on the counter said he'd just had the job of putting it together.

There you go always a place of surprises!

**ozwinner** · 1st February 2005, 07:49 PM

When I saw the title.
Weird thing afoot at carbatec

I thought they had stumbled across some customer service stashed away in some dark corner.

Al

**Corcorbear** · 1st February 2005, 07:53 PM

customer service - you must have been in the wrong store !

**chook** · 1st February 2005, 08:48 PM

My experience of Carbatec has been that mostly I have received good to acceptable service with the occassional bit of doggy stuff. I suppose it depends on who you get and what sort of day they have had. I suppose that if I worked there mostly I would be the same. I could say, under a mask of annonimity that I would always do a great job, but sometimes I could imagine that I would be a pain.

The thing that annoys me is when you order something and it never turns up.Then when you ring to find out why you get some poor (and innocent of any crime) young person,often female. They try to find the guilty party but cannot. You are told that they will ring you back. Guess what- they don't. Happened today. I wonder if I will be buying anything from them in the future? I wonder if they know how much potential business that they lost. There are other places to buy bulk lots of timber in this world.

**echnidna** · 1st February 2005, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by soundman

Now I'v seen band saws with disc sanders and horisontal morticers grafted on the side but this one had.....
A sausage maker grafted to the side of it.

There you go always a place of surprises!

So are we giving up pancakes for salami recipes??

**Toggy** · 1st February 2005, 09:04 PM

Carba-who???

Tomorrow I have to go to Melbourne & pickup some gear in Lilydale. I then fully intend to bypass "a" woodworking machinery supplier in Bayswater and go to H & F and look at a BP-16A bandsaw. If they make the deal attractive enough; I will even let them sell me one and they can load it straight on the ute. Hopefully a bunch of 'green' notes will get me a good deal.

Ken

**Tankstand** · 1st February 2005, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by echnidna

So are we giving up pancakes for salami recipes??

Speaking of Pancakes

Tuesday the 8th!

**soundman** · 1st February 2005, 10:38 PM

I'don't know what is going on but I seem to be able to get good results at carbatec bris. But there seems to be some mumbling in vic, what gives?

I've had some baaaadd attitude at some of the other vendors arround bris though.

**Iain** · 2nd February 2005, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by Toggy

Carba-who???

Tomorrow I have to go to Melbourne & pickup some gear in Lilydale. I then fully intend to bypass "a" woodworking machinery supplier in Bayswater and go to H & F and look at a BP-16A bandsaw. If they make the deal attractive enough; I will even let them sell me one and they can load it straight on the ute. Hopefully a bunch of 'green' notes will get me a good deal.

Ken

Probably keep going down to Braeside and see whats on offer, you got this far.
They too will negotiate with a bit of folding material, Citrus St Braeside not too far from Clayton, H&F are good to deal with though and I have no gripes with either of them.

**simon c** · 2nd February 2005, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by ozwinner

When I saw the title.
Weird thing afoot at carbatec

I thought they had stumbled across some customer service stashed away in some dark corner.

Al

That reminds me of an old advert for a car company (German one, maybe VW). I saw it in the UK but I'm not sure if it made it here.

There's a man walking down the corridor in VW's office and he here's a phone ringing in an office. He opens the door and he's in an office that looks like it not be visited for 50 years. There'a an old dial phone with a bell, dust on the desk etc.
He answers the phone and it is in fact a wrong number. As he leaves, he looks at the notice on the door and it's the customer complaints department.

Simon

**JackoH** · 2nd February 2005, 09:54 AM

Carba-tec and XXXXX-XXX seem to be in danger of taking over this board!
May I suggest a new forum is started entitled greatest B#*^^-^*+t artists and all the posts on this subject placed there? :eek:

**silentC** · 2nd February 2005, 10:06 AM

If we move all the BS artists to another forum, you're going to get awfully lonely John.

**Iain** · 2nd February 2005, 10:34 AM

Do I sense a poll on the way or is itr just a minor earth tremor

**JackoH** · 2nd February 2005, 03:01 PM

Mr C.
I was not referring to the contributors to these forums (fora?) as BS artists.(Gawd forbid), but to the various purveyors of machinery and other bits and pieces to us woodworking gentry, who promise the earth and deliver B*##^+ All, Obviously you did not read it the way I writ it!
Incidently those of you who live in other parts of our wonderful land may like to know that it has been raining here in Godzown (Sorry Iain you can't transfer that title) for the past twelve hours or so, and judging by the weather map ain't going to stop any time soon. I have just turned on the heating and it's 11.C outside. This time yesterday the air-con was going flat out and it was 38.C.
Whatever else Melbournes weather is, it's certainly not boring. :eek:

**Termite** · 2nd February 2005, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by JackoH

Mr C.
I was not referring to the contributors to these forums (fora?) as BS artists.(Gawd forbid), :

Why not?

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