Ever gotten money back from a machine shop?

LOL ! wagons circulars! I'm tired of hearing about excuses for poor craftsmanship this is b*******! Remember and post 42 where you said your piston guy would say four weeks which was a lie and you knew it and then you would make up the best lie you could to your customer who's paying you to tell him hopefully the truth and do an honest job? How does someone go about using a good conscience lying to somebody who's giving them them a good hard-earned money? I think there should be a new nature to this business or somewhere on your Pricelist you have the no excuse price. When I'm into it 5K I would just assume pay another grand to know that it's right and going to be done right the first time. What happened to getting what you paid for? It's all easy and everybody is doing it! I'm an extremely quick learner and there's absolutely no way whatsoever I could work in a machine shop for any amount of time. I would be banging myself on the head with a hammer with all that repetitive crapolla. I can't do repeat repeat repeat repeat jobs. I'll throw a valve spring across the room at somebody just to make something happen in the shop. I would think the final assembly man would be the top dog in the shop? He should be able to know what everybody's doing so it all comes together in one perfect peace? This person should be double-checking everything that goes out of that shop .


How did I lie? I told my customers when the crap would show up.

Like I said, I'd rather tell the customer too long for parts and have them show up early, then to tell them what the manufacturer says, have it show up late and have to deal with that.

So I didn't lie.

What I would suggest you do is go out and open your own shop. Or buy a shop where the guy is retiring. See how fast you go broke.

Also, everyone and their mother knows you can train an organ grinder to assemble an engine. Why does everyone think it hard? Before I final assemble an engine it has been put together several times. If it's a new build it might go together 10 times. All the double checking should be done LONG before it gets final assembled. Unless you like degreeing a cam, checking P/V, piston to head and a hundred other things on final assembly.

You need to open your own shop. Then you can ***** about what it costs, how long it takes, ridiculous customer expectations and deal with **** when it goes sideways.