Waldo
13th March 2006, 08:54 PM
G'day,
This is a gripe because DIL has pinged me off BIG time!
My Grandad's lathe is on DIL farm in mid n/coast of NSW with all the chucks, centres and gouges etc. you could imagine.
Someone from this forum and a real good bloke has lent me his lathe for a short while.
I need some chucks, gouges etc to use on the borrowed lathe, so I contact DIL to send some down. And every single time I ask him to do something for me, he always thinks he knows better and does something else! :mad:
My blood boils! He isn't sending down the 2MT drill chuck because it weighs 1kg, so he has taken it upon himself to modify one of the other chucks, welded a rod to it, shaped it to a 2MT and says, "it'll do what you want"
He's taken it upon himself to bugger up a perfectly good chuck, that was my Grandad's, now mine because he was too $%#%@$%$ pigheaded to do what I asked! That pings me off big time!
It's not the first time he's modified something. Last time it was the support frame that my Dad fabricated for his d/press, face plate sander and 14" b/saw. Each time he took upon himself to modify it because he thought it should be. Never mind they weren't his or that they were my inheritance from my Grandad or Dad.
For the time the lathe will stay at the farm I'm stressed at what else he might modify because he thinks it should be, never crosses his mind to ask me first. OK, I haven't seen what he has modified or done yet, but fair go.
This is a gripe because DIL has pinged me off BIG time!
My Grandad's lathe is on DIL farm in mid n/coast of NSW with all the chucks, centres and gouges etc. you could imagine.
Someone from this forum and a real good bloke has lent me his lathe for a short while.
I need some chucks, gouges etc to use on the borrowed lathe, so I contact DIL to send some down. And every single time I ask him to do something for me, he always thinks he knows better and does something else! :mad:
My blood boils! He isn't sending down the 2MT drill chuck because it weighs 1kg, so he has taken it upon himself to modify one of the other chucks, welded a rod to it, shaped it to a 2MT and says, "it'll do what you want"
He's taken it upon himself to bugger up a perfectly good chuck, that was my Grandad's, now mine because he was too $%#%@$%$ pigheaded to do what I asked! That pings me off big time!
It's not the first time he's modified something. Last time it was the support frame that my Dad fabricated for his d/press, face plate sander and 14" b/saw. Each time he took upon himself to modify it because he thought it should be. Never mind they weren't his or that they were my inheritance from my Grandad or Dad.
For the time the lathe will stay at the farm I'm stressed at what else he might modify because he thinks it should be, never crosses his mind to ask me first. OK, I haven't seen what he has modified or done yet, but fair go.