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Got a call from Saia on Tuesday. I was busy Thursday, so scheduled the delivery for today (Friday). Was getting kind of torqued that they ditched me for an early weekend until the driver finally called at nearly 6pm. He finally made it at 7 or so after getting stuck in a traffic jam in the middle of nowhere (car wreck a couple miles away). Grabbed the crate & boxes out of the back of the semi with the Kubota. They put a pallet under the crate so the driver could move it around. Unfortunately that pallet was pretty smashed & only half under the crate. Ended up disassembling the pallet under the crate while they were both sitting on my pallet forks so I could set the crate down level & stand a chance at getting forks under it again.
Open up the boxes containing the stand first as they were the worse for wear. No metal damage, but the paint on them & the stickers is all sorts of scuffed. A bit of metal showing on the corners of the headstock stand & both doors. No bends or dents I can tell yet, maybe a few dings on the corners.
The crate was fully intact & seems to have survived crushing the pallet. Pulled out all the boxes containing all the accessories & stuff. One of the small aluminum boxes was on the loosing end of some fight, but i'm not quite sure what the fight was with. At any rate it opens fine & nothing important was messed up, inside at least. None of the other aluminum or tool boxes were any worse for wear. Some of the cardboard boxes were a a bit worn or chewed up, but no contents seemed to be harmed.
Unloaded the pallet a bit more & found some more paint damage on the drip tray, edges got chipped & rubbed a fair bit as well as a spot or 2 on the bottom. Again no metal damage though & I think it's mostly on the back & bottom. The back splash of the lathe itself got scuffed a bit from some of the boxes vibrating, but luckily not though the paint. May even just be some dust ground on a bit rather than paint damage. The back panel between the stands got scuffed a bit, but not through the paint & not nearly as bad as the doors for the stands.
The good news is the lathe itself looks to be fine, except for that trivial dirt or scuffing on the back of the back splash. Well, other than the expected cosmaline, dirt & splinters from unpacking & shipping. Knew that was coming & I'd need to clean that off though. Actually, looking at that photo now, looks like the pallet might have taken one of the "feet" of the pallet with it.
Now comes the hard part. Have to figure out if I'm gonna bother trying to re-paint the stands at all. I figure it's cold enough here in Colorado for a while I probably won't bother. Hopefully the worst of the dings will just be hidden under the drip tray. As my tractor won't fit under the door to my shop that hangs off the side of the barn I'm in for some work assembling this thing. Have a pallet jack to get it in position & gonna borrow an engine hoist from a friend down the road (he wants me to do some tractor work for him anyway). Wrapped it up as it was getting late & in the 20's, all the melting snow froze back up.
Open up the boxes containing the stand first as they were the worse for wear. No metal damage, but the paint on them & the stickers is all sorts of scuffed. A bit of metal showing on the corners of the headstock stand & both doors. No bends or dents I can tell yet, maybe a few dings on the corners.
The crate was fully intact & seems to have survived crushing the pallet. Pulled out all the boxes containing all the accessories & stuff. One of the small aluminum boxes was on the loosing end of some fight, but i'm not quite sure what the fight was with. At any rate it opens fine & nothing important was messed up, inside at least. None of the other aluminum or tool boxes were any worse for wear. Some of the cardboard boxes were a a bit worn or chewed up, but no contents seemed to be harmed.
Unloaded the pallet a bit more & found some more paint damage on the drip tray, edges got chipped & rubbed a fair bit as well as a spot or 2 on the bottom. Again no metal damage though & I think it's mostly on the back & bottom. The back splash of the lathe itself got scuffed a bit from some of the boxes vibrating, but luckily not though the paint. May even just be some dust ground on a bit rather than paint damage. The back panel between the stands got scuffed a bit, but not through the paint & not nearly as bad as the doors for the stands.
The good news is the lathe itself looks to be fine, except for that trivial dirt or scuffing on the back of the back splash. Well, other than the expected cosmaline, dirt & splinters from unpacking & shipping. Knew that was coming & I'd need to clean that off though. Actually, looking at that photo now, looks like the pallet might have taken one of the "feet" of the pallet with it.
Now comes the hard part. Have to figure out if I'm gonna bother trying to re-paint the stands at all. I figure it's cold enough here in Colorado for a while I probably won't bother. Hopefully the worst of the dings will just be hidden under the drip tray. As my tractor won't fit under the door to my shop that hangs off the side of the barn I'm in for some work assembling this thing. Have a pallet jack to get it in position & gonna borrow an engine hoist from a friend down the road (he wants me to do some tractor work for him anyway). Wrapped it up as it was getting late & in the 20's, all the melting snow froze back up.
