[elky] Re: A day when things went right (for a change)
- From: Chris Lindh <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:56:30 -0400
Sounds like great progress. Motel 6 or Super 8?
The America's Best Value (formerly Super 8) left something to be desired,
but I guess you get what you pay for. The intermittent wifi was annoying.
Since I was on the road I had my wife book the stay in SLC the night before
I came home. For less than the weekend rate at the America's Best Value I
stayed in a business-class extended stay suite that was a definite step up.
Have you spoken to the performance drive shaft company yet?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Boy, am I tired. It's been a long day (14 hours so far) and it ain't
> over, but in what seems to be a change from the norm, things went right
> today. Here's the list:
>
> I finally got Expedia to arrange for a refund of the 2 night's lodging in
> Wendover that I left early when World Finals was rained out:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2011/05-wf/Welcome.html (there's a
> caption on every page to explain what went on as far as the racing and the
> Burb's distributor's untimely demise.) I had to be tenacious about it
> before I got it...at first they didn't want to refund anything, then the
> hotel manager said it was their policy to refund only 1 out of 2 nights, but
> when I explained that my German friend checked out at exactly the same time
> I did and got a full cash refund, the motel owner finally ran out of excuses
> and authorized the full refund. Btw...if you come to the salt flats, avoid
> the Motel 6 like the plague. The Knight's Inn is much better. Jim can
> explain about the cockroach he found in his room earlier in the
> year....ohh...and that was the place where the owner doesn't turn the heat
> on for the rooms until November. Hell, I dunno if he's noticed, but
> Wendover is in the high desert and has the same climate as Salt Lake
> City...except for our Wasatch mountains directly to the east of the SL
> valley. I started turning on my heater before I left for WF. But then I'm
> kinda cold-blooded.
>
> Moving right along, I got Moon Equipment's refund of the deposit for the
> Moon Disc mounting hardware welding jig.
>
> I took the junkyard driveshaft in and had the people at GRS Drivelines
> replace the slip joint and rear u-joint. That was done in about 6 hours.
> It cost about half of what had been refunded to me, so that wasn't too bad.
> It was pretty good, as a matter of fact.
>
> While I was waiting for that to be done, I was able to fix the Beater
> Camaro's horn button with the spring from a ball-point pen. Seems that
> whoever installed the aftermarket wheel (looks sorta like a 60s-era Cal
> Custom job) neglected to put the spring in the electrical contact do-dad
> that has the wire that connects to the grounding plate the center cap snaps
> onto. Confused? Me, too...but it was a no-cost repair of something that
> was a case of (as Jim H likes to say) "the dreadin was worse than the
> doin." Now I just need to get Safety and Emissions Inspection and I can get
> a real live license plate for it. That one may not be so easy.
>
> Finally (and this is rather ponderous) I took the "flexible flyer" trailer
> ramps back to the place I got 'em and although it also took some rather
> tenacious discussion with the parts counter people (the first guy was
> Mexican and we definitely had a "failure to communicate") I got a result
> that I'm very satisfied with. Here's what happened. When the folks at
> Henderson Wheel (a very well-established place for just about anything to do
> with wheels, spindles, bearings, trailers and a whole buncha other stuff)
> told me that they had a pair of 4400 pound-rated ramps, but they'd have to
> be brought in from one of their other stores (in Orem, Ut...the joke about
> that goes, "what's the difference between Orem and yogurt?" Answer: "Yogurt
> has culture." <G>) they did just exactly that. They had a pair of ramps
> brought north by their courier and I picked 'em up the next day. But what
> they gave me isn't what I paid for, nor was it what they'd told me I was
> buying. Seems the counter guy (experienced, knowledgeable and ok in my
> book) was off by a single digit in the part number and the ones he gave
> me...well, all the labeling was in French and when I unlimbered my high
> school (and Moroccan) French skills, I saw that it said, "Do not exceed
> 500kg on ramps." That's 1100 pounds, exactly 1/4 of the 4400 pound-rated
> ramps I supposedly bought. They were intended for use with garden tractors
> or maybe ATVs or snowmobiles. Fail. Big time fail.
>
> In an almost spooky way, the ramps that I'd paid for and they'd had brought
> in by courier were right by the door behind the counter. They apologized
> for handing me the wrong ramps and handed me the right ones. Here's a shot
> of 'em still in their packing along with the installation-ready driveshaft:
>
>
>
> Seeing what I should have had in the first place, there's no way that the
> first set could have done the job of what I picked up today. These are
> about twice as wide and twice as thick. Now I know why the others bent.
>
> Finally, I got in touch with a guy who wants a CD of photos (a new
> customer) and he tells me he'll be making a contribution to my website as
> payment for 'em.
>
> I can't remember a day in the recent past (hell, I can't remember
> breakfast) where so many things have gone right. Yanno, I think I prolly
> otta go to bed before I screw something up. :) No...I have another 120
> files to edit from the car show I shot last Saturday. But I can handle
> that.
>
> r
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