what grinds your gears

[melted welly]

I know all manufacturers do it, and probably have their reasons, but protected parts are a cartel.
Had a pump go on drill and it is design specific to manufacturer. Shaft is non standard, so instead of perhaps £400, it costs over £800. Because it costs so much and rarely something that gives faults, the dealers don't keep in stock and because it breaks on a Saturday afternoon, manufacturers parts dept have gone home so can't order till Monday. If it was a keyed shaft and not some fancy 9 spline piece of cr@p it'd of been replaced in matter of hours............and then there's the elevator web for the harvester that is extortionate enough without them needing £1200 over and above the £5100 for the extra 1m that our "non standard" one is. It was standard when we bought the fekin thing.

 

[smcapstick]

I know all manufacturers do it, and probably have their reasons, but protected parts are a cartel.
Had a pump go on drill and it is design specific to manufacturer. Shaft is non standard, so instead of perhaps £400, it costs over £800. Because it costs so much and rarely something that gives faults, the dealers don't keep in stock and because it breaks on a Saturday afternoon, manufacturers parts dept have gone home so can't order till Monday. If it was a keyed shaft and not some fancy 9 spline piece of cr@p it'd of been replaced in matter of hours............and then there's the elevator web for the harvester that is extortionate enough without them needing £1200 over and above the £5100 for the extra 1m that our "non standard" one is. It was standard when we bought the fekin thing.

You'll be needing this:

 

[ladycrofter]

As above ^^ our dilemma with the non-functioning Ford Ranger horn causing a failed MOT. Found the relay at last, behind a heavy metal case (no problem) screwed on with anti-tamper, snap-off round headed bolts. So if they DO decide to use "normal" parts, they'll just imprison them behind an impenetrable lump of metal.

Brooo hah hah hah (*** evil laugh***) - they didnae plan on OH wiring the horn directly to a BIG RED BUTTON on the dash. With a tidy wee "H" printed with the label machine.

Result - MOT passed.

 

[Paddington]

As above ^^ our dilemma with the non-functioning Ford Ranger horn causing a failed MOT. Found the relay at last, behind a heavy metal case (no problem) screwed on with anti-tamper, snap-off round headed bolts. So if they DO decide to use "normal" parts, they'll just imprison them behind an impenetrable lump of metal.

Brooo hah hah hah (*** evil laugh***) - they didnae plan on OH wiring the horn directly to a BIG RED BUTTON on the dash. With a tidy wee "H" printed with the label machine.

Result - MOT passed.

Bet that horn gets a lot more use than when it had the original switch.

 

[ARW]

Fat people that wear skin tight leggings, and the irony that they are branded “51 track & field”
Do they run 10k runs or the long jump?
No it’s more like eating 51 tracker bars while wobbling round a field

 

[ladycrofter]

Sorry to see you used a new nail, that could have gone into the Bodge thread.

 

[melted welly]

You'll be needing this:

If that tin foil hat is made by a certain German manufacturer, I doubt I could afford it!

 

[melted welly]

As above ^^ our dilemma with the non-functioning Ford Ranger horn causing a failed MOT. Found the relay at last, behind a heavy metal case (no problem) screwed on with anti-tamper, snap-off round headed bolts. So if they DO decide to use "normal" parts, they'll just imprison them behind an impenetrable lump of metal.

Brooo hah hah hah (*** evil laugh***) - they didnae plan on OH wiring the horn directly to a BIG RED BUTTON on the dash. With a tidy wee "H" printed with the label machine.

Result - MOT passed.

If a headlight/sidelight bulb goes on my 2010 Ranger, it requires the wheel off and access through the inside of the wheel arch by removing some plastic guards held on by crappy single use plastic rivets. I got cross one day and threw one away............. subsequently filled the air filter with mud.
Doh!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I have the advantage of a large belly, which restricts the whole bending over thing. By avoiding those antics, my phone rarely falls out.

If a headlight/sidelight bulb goes on my 2010 Ranger, it requires the wheel off and access through the inside of the wheel arch by removing some plastic guards held on by crappy single use plastic rivets. I got cross one day and threw one away............. subsequently filled the air filter with mud.
Doh!

THAT design must have seemed like a reasonably good idea to some "designer" sat in an office

 

[roscoe erf]

Finding that sometime over the winter some #@*&ing joker has nicked all the cold out of the air con!

You should of paid the ransom

 

[smcapstick]

Stupid questions.

Why is it for sale?
I'm a machinery dealer. I trade machinery.

Why are some of the optional extras missing?
Because they're optional and were not ordered by the initial purchaser.

Urgh.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Stupid questions.

Why is it for sale?
I'm a machinery dealer. I trade machinery.

Why are some of the optional extras missing?
Because they're optional and were not ordered by the initial purchaser.

Urgh.

 

[roscoe erf]

Stupid questions.

Why is it for sale?
I'm a machinery dealer. I trade machinery.

Why are some of the optional extras missing?
Because they're optional and were not ordered by the initial purchaser.

Urgh.

Why is it that colour and why is it over priced or a classic I got asked yesterday
I’m very interested in your item but at a considerably lower price what’s you best price delivered to Cornwall

 

[Shovelhands]

A customer who says they haven’t paid their bill because we haven’t sent them a reminder yet...

Then says, “we were waiting for a statement”........look at the invoice, it’s says invoice/statement! FFS

 

[betweenthelines]

Stupid questions.

Why is it for sale?
I'm a machinery dealer. I trade machinery.

Why are some of the optional extras missing?
Because they're optional and were not ordered by the initial purchaser.

Urgh.

smcapstick-the Basil Fawlty of the machinery trade LOL

 

[itsalwaysme]

A customer who says they haven’t paid their bill because we haven’t sent them a reminder yet...

Then says, “we were waiting for a statement”........look at the invoice, it’s says invoice/statement! FFS

I had a customer like that, so would send invoices and a monthly statement on a separate sheet, one month they paid the invoices and the statement total

 

[melted welly]

THAT design must have seemed like a reasonably good idea to some "designer" sat in an office

Probably graduate of same design school who used to like siting the manual lift pump on 530-70 loadalls directly beneath turbo, so if you had diesel trouble in the middle of the day you'd need a skin graft for the resultant burns to forearm encountered whilst priming.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Probably graduate of same design school who used to like siting the manual lift pump on 530-70 loadalls directly beneath turbo, so if you had diesel trouble in the middle of the day you'd need a skin graft for the resultant burns to forearm encountered whilst priming.

Or the designer of various tractors/diggers who put the lift pump and filters on opposite sides of the engine so bleeding it becomes a 2 man job

 

[ashmore]

Mice grind my gears today. I wondered why the solar panels weren't working very well. No fecking wonder when they've eaten through the wires. What possesses them to eat the insulation?? There's no nutritional value in plastic. I can only hope the little bugger was frazzled to death. Because it's shorted across to the sheeting and burnt a hole in it.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Replacing fence posts that are only 3 years old

Even the strainers are all rotten.