Finally got a lathe

[smokeywolf]

You have to call Amazon. We went through this 3 days ago. Ordered a new practice drum pad for the 17 year old. Didn't show up when it was supposed to. Reordered, showed up next day. Day after that, original order showed up. Box was empty. Stamped, "received without contents". Mrs. smokeywolf called Amazon (I think you have to email or PM them on their website then they call you). They said, "no problem, we'll credit your account".

Don't know if this made any difference, we've done tens of thousands of dollars in business with Amazon, both as buyers and sellers.

[NavyVet1959]

You have to call Amazon. We went through this 3 days ago. Ordered a new practice drum pad for the 17 year old. Didn't show up when it was supposed to. Reordered, showed up next day. Day after that, original order showed up. Box was empty. Stamped, "received without contents". Mrs. smokeywolf called Amazon (I think you have to email or PM them on their website then they call you). They said, "no problem, we'll credit your account".

Don't know if this made any difference, we've done tens of thousands of dollars in business with Amazon, both as buyers and sellers.

Last person I spoke with was apparently from India or Pakistan and I had quite a bit of difficulty understanding them. The conversation ended with, "Well, whatever... I have no idea what you are trying to say. Goodbye!"

They should have a menu option:

Press 1 for English.
Press 2 for a native English speaker.
Press 3 for someone that speaks English that you can actually understand.

I've been waiting 6.5 hours for a callback that the original person said would happen within an hour.

[smokeywolf]

Got to agree with you on the phone menu.

Mrs. smokeywolf had a export business that relied heavily on a Amazon presence. Somehow she's always managed to get someone who can speak coherent English.

[NavyVet1959]

Got to agree with you on the phone menu.

Mrs. smokeywolf had a export business that relied heavily on a Amazon presence. Somehow she's always managed to get someone who can speak coherent English.

Well, the first person I spoke with, she was perfectly understandable. She said she would call me back within an hour after the refund gift card went through. After 3 hours, I called back and from then on, I never got anyone that spoke a version of English that I could understand.

[smokeywolf]

Have them send you a confirmation email that your account will be credited or they will re-ship.

[Buckshot]

.............You know, if you get someone you cannot understand, and believe you're calling a foreign call center, you can ask to speak to someone in the United States. If they are in the United States, you may ask for an native English speaker. Hearing in my left ear (I usually clamp the handset there with my left shoulder) isn't really what it should be. So then I'll switch to the right ear and ask them to repeat it. If that doesn't handle it I'll ask them to SPEAK UP! Heck, I'm an old guy amd a, NOT trying to make points with anyone anymore, HA!

.................Buckshot

[NavyVet1959]

.............You know, if you get someone you cannot understand, and believe you're calling a foreign call center, you can ask to speak to someone in the United States. If they are in the United States, you may ask for an native English speaker. Hearing in my left ear (I usually clamp the handset there with my left shoulder) isn't really what it should be. So then I'll switch to the right ear and ask them to repeat it. If that doesn't handle it I'll ask them to SPEAK UP! Heck, I'm an old guy amd a, NOT trying to make points with anyone anymore, HA!

With my luck, if I asked for a native English speaker, they would give be someone from Ireland or Scotland. Or maybe even worse -- someone from the Bronx or New Jersey...

[NavyVet1959]

Well, I got the quick change tool post in on Thursday. Amazon hasn't refunded me the $12 shipping yet, but the gift card they put on the account to cover the cost of reordering the item worked. I'll give it a few days to show up on my credit card as a credit. The shipping cost debit has already shown up.

Going to try installing the quick change tool post this evening.

[popper]

Just color me green - and if I had a place to put one - - I could move the wife's car outside?

[NavyVet1959]

Just color me green - and if I had a place to put one - - I could move the wife's car outside?

Going to depend on the lathe...

Some need more space ...


(Lodge & Shipley 22x120)

... than others ...


(Fay & Scott 13x52)

[Moleman-]

My old line shaft horizontal mill was converted to electric with the same gearbox that they used to convert that old lodge and Shipley lathe.

[Traffer]

That old machinery is artwork to me. To to think that they were working with that stuff before houses had electric lights...and they still function well now. It is just amazing.

[Wolfer]

Someone converted my 1894 porter machine works with a model A transmission and an electric motor.
As I was contouring a barrel on it a few days ago it occurred to me that there was someone standing over this very lathe in the late 1800s

Bought it at a farm auction for $175 and have replaced the 10" 3 jaw with a cheap 8" 4 jaw.

[NavyVet1959]

Some of the ones that I saw on CraigsList looked like they had been sitting out in the weather for so many years that they were only worth whatever the scrap metal was worth. It's a shame when some people leave classic machinery out like that and let it get ruined.

[smokeywolf]

In the mid 1980s I was single pointing threads on titanium rod on a 1898 Hardinge Cataract Toolroom lathe. Was using the original follow rest too. Looked a little like that 13 X 52 cone drive lathe in the lower pic in post #110, but a might smaller.