Post by catgate on Sept 28, 2005 16:04:13 GMT
I suppose the time has come to bring this sorry saga up to date, and fill in some gaps in the tale so far.
I saw a Colchester 7½” Triumph advertised on ebay by a seller identified as “bigbang318”, who eventually turned out to be a Joe Corner of Bretby, Burton on Trent. The picture showed a grubby lathe with a three jaw chuck and a Dixon tool post (Yes I know it is spelled wrongly but the board Bowdlerises the correct one).
In answer to my pre bidding question I was told it had a 3 jaw and a 4 jaw chuck with it. It had a 5hp motor it was 3ph etc etc. The ad. said “Inspection Invited”, which I take to mean “Come and a look at it…I’m proud of what I’m selling.”. So I bid for it and “won”.
The seller would arranged transport for which I would pay the carrier on arrival.
For a few, ostensibly quite plausible, reasons this delivery was put off and put off for almost three months.
I had sent the man a set of maps ( included with my cheque, the day after the auction) for the benefit of his carrier, and had also emailed him a duplicate set when he finally got round to arranging the delivery, because he said he could not find them. Due to our several email and ‘phone conversations, about the protracted delivery, he had my ‘phone number.
In the middle of the afternoon of the appointed day I got a phone call from the driver saying he was lost. I could not understand this because I had spent quite a long time putting red and yellow arrows on two large scale maps to ensure the driver would have no difficulty whatsoever. After chasing about for an hour all over the East Riding I ran him to ground, and asked him if he had had difficulty following the maps. “What b****y maps?”
So after guiding him back we got it unloaded. “Where is the four jaw chuck?” “What b****y four jaw chuck?”…Oh dear.
The following day I phoned Joe and asked what about the chuck. “Oh, I just could not get up to where it was being loaded from in time. I’ll sent it to you.”
I had seen, in a cupboard in the cabinet base, what I thought was a spare half nut, but the following day, as I was cleaning the machine, I found that a) it was not spare and b) it was broken. An email to Joe resulted in a reply which asked me to send him pictures of what was broken and he would send me replacements with the chuck. He got his pictures, but I have not yet got my chuck nor my replacement broken bits.
To be continued.
I saw a Colchester 7½” Triumph advertised on ebay by a seller identified as “bigbang318”, who eventually turned out to be a Joe Corner of Bretby, Burton on Trent. The picture showed a grubby lathe with a three jaw chuck and a Dixon tool post (Yes I know it is spelled wrongly but the board Bowdlerises the correct one).
In answer to my pre bidding question I was told it had a 3 jaw and a 4 jaw chuck with it. It had a 5hp motor it was 3ph etc etc. The ad. said “Inspection Invited”, which I take to mean “Come and a look at it…I’m proud of what I’m selling.”. So I bid for it and “won”.
The seller would arranged transport for which I would pay the carrier on arrival.
For a few, ostensibly quite plausible, reasons this delivery was put off and put off for almost three months.
I had sent the man a set of maps ( included with my cheque, the day after the auction) for the benefit of his carrier, and had also emailed him a duplicate set when he finally got round to arranging the delivery, because he said he could not find them. Due to our several email and ‘phone conversations, about the protracted delivery, he had my ‘phone number.
In the middle of the afternoon of the appointed day I got a phone call from the driver saying he was lost. I could not understand this because I had spent quite a long time putting red and yellow arrows on two large scale maps to ensure the driver would have no difficulty whatsoever. After chasing about for an hour all over the East Riding I ran him to ground, and asked him if he had had difficulty following the maps. “What b****y maps?”
So after guiding him back we got it unloaded. “Where is the four jaw chuck?” “What b****y four jaw chuck?”…Oh dear.
The following day I phoned Joe and asked what about the chuck. “Oh, I just could not get up to where it was being loaded from in time. I’ll sent it to you.”
I had seen, in a cupboard in the cabinet base, what I thought was a spare half nut, but the following day, as I was cleaning the machine, I found that a) it was not spare and b) it was broken. An email to Joe resulted in a reply which asked me to send him pictures of what was broken and he would send me replacements with the chuck. He got his pictures, but I have not yet got my chuck nor my replacement broken bits.
To be continued.
