by KE4AVB » Thu Jun 15, 2017 7:00 am
Yes a lot times I feel like just a part replacer instead of being a repairman.
I can understand some thought behind the factories attitude. As things are done on an assembly line with new parts. Costs are little in both time and parts. It is when the parts finally makes to us, the end user, so many additional charges are added in. The factories also don't see all the time we spend troubleshooting problems, dealing suppliers and the customers. It is same with customers, they just don't want to accept it take time to get the parts. There are days that I spend more time finding parts than I do actual work. They also like to keep their workers busy.
I currently got a customer pushing to get his Mule out of the shop. He don't seen to understand shipping times for parts. I needed a half shaft that didn't get shipped until Monday as the vendor had to get it out of the Kawasaki warehouse. Told him it would be shipped out Monday from GA and it takes two days to get here. So what does he do? He comes in bright and early Wednesday trying to tell me that I said they would be in Tuesday. I had to explain the shipping route. That the ordered parts had to go from GA to Nashville, Tullahoma and finally my shop which deliveries are in the late afternoon. The parts showed up around around 3 pm Wednesday.
Now I got the reassembly to do this morning and hopefully can get things watertight by 10am as it when storms that are currently moving through Missouri is to start arriving. I still got to go to Tram-law and pickup the my oil order today.
Oh well going to the coffee pot to drain it and down a couple pills then out to the shop.
Just having vent somewhere my frustration at all the new costs this year and the all the back orders. At least the back orders are usually for restock items or items that I am making stock for before I need them. I actually sold several items that I ordered during the off season as they were for newer mowers that I seen late last year. Deck and drive belts mainly.
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