Shoddy work from the park tool warriors

[jrewing]

My ratio of shoddy work is 3 to 1. I do most of my work but circumstances or time require me to send or drop it off.
Every 3rd paying job has a fault.
I know most of them mechs doing the work, but they all think they are Adrian Newey capable engineers.
Straw that breaks the camel’s back is my forks getting serviced and the top cap on damper side has the oring squished out whilst it was nipped up from a full service.
You cant hand the job back like that! Now i question the workmanshio inside.
Over-priced pretend mechanics.

Im going full in-house soon… im over the questionable quality i frequently endure.
And easier for me to vent here then go back. Which i do wonder why i dont actually.

 

[jrewing]

And as suspected. That top cap should just nip up. But its tight as.

 

[teK--]

My ratio of shoddy work is 3 to 1. I do most of my work but circumstances or time require me to send or drop it off.
Every 3rd paying job has a fault.
I know most of them mechs doing the work, but they all think they are Adrian Newey capable engineers.
Straw that breaks the camel’s back is my forks getting serviced and the top cap on damper side has the oring squished out whilst it was nipped up from a full service.
You cant hand the job back like that! Now i question the workmanshio inside.
Over-priced failed real mechanics.

Im going full in-house soon… im over the questionable quality i frequently endure.
And easier for me to vent here then go back. Which i do wonder why i dont actually.

Mate I feel ya

Unless it needs a vacuum bleeding machine I will do it myself.

 

[jrewing]

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Mate I feel ya

Unless it needs a vacuum bleeding machine I will do it myself.

keep an eye on a second hand one. Ive seen smarter guys make them too.

 

[Oddjob]

My ratio of shoddy work is 3 to 1. I do most of my work but circumstances or time require me to send or drop it off.
Every 3rd paying job has a fault.
I know most of them mechs doing the work, but they all think they are Adrian Newey capable engineers.
Straw that breaks the camel’s back is my forks getting serviced and the top cap on damper side has the oring squished out whilst it was nipped up from a full service.
You cant hand the job back like that! Now i question the workmanshio inside.
Over-priced failed real mechanics.

Im going full in-house soon… im over the questionable quality i frequently endure.
And easier for me to vent here then go back. Which i do wonder why i dont actually.

I'm guessing the workshop name does not begin with b, m, n or s. Feel free to PM me to confirm.

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[jrewing]

 

[jrewing]

Jammed oring is the yellow spot. Green i think is where a bigger original oring should be.
no recess for a oring at yellow nor in top
Tube as its threaded all the way.

 

[BKMad]

Yep I do my own shoddy work. Dont see the point of paying someone else to do a shoddy job when I can do it just as bad myself (sometimes even better).

 

[Flow-Rider]

keep an eye on a second hand one. Ive seen smarter guys make them too.

You can pick them up really cheap on aliexpress, no idea about the quality though.

 

[johnny]

There's only two shops I've never had an issue with:

1. Bike Culture, Belconnen
2. Monkey Wrench in Hacket

Both are in CBR. I haven't used either extensively and now that I think about it, it's only been for wheel builds and shock servicing.

 

[fjohn860]

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Fucking hell.

Ol' mate must've been like "now where's that 1mm CS o-ring gone?"

"oh well, this 2.5mm one will do the trick"

Someone should stick that damper up the useless chunts arse and give it a sideways hit with a 10.5LB dead blow sledge.

 

[ozzybmx]

Unless it needs a vacuum bleeding machine I will do it myself.

Same. Forks, damper, air spring, dropper, wheel builds etc... only a vacc'd shock gets sent for service.

I'll even give any job a go and buy some sweet tools to do it with before calling bloke in.

 

[silentbutdeadly]

keep an eye on a second hand one. Ive seen smarter guys make them too.

https://www.westlab.com.au/vacuum-pump-hand-held
They aren't that expensive...

 

[oldcorollas]

https://www.westlab.com.au/vacuum-pump-hand-held
They aren't that expensive...

easy to make a shoddy one based on a syringe and a couple of 1 way fittings, ala https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Laboratory-Vacuum-Filter/
use it to pump out a small metal tube as a vac reservoir... simple valve to turn on/off..

 

[silentbutdeadly]

easy to make a shoddy one based on a syringe and a couple of 1 way fittings, ala https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Laboratory-Vacuum-Filter/
use it to pump out a small metal tube as a vac reservoir... simple valve to turn on/off..

For sure...we made something like that to filter water samples out in the boat back in the 90s. Then we 'borrowed' a hand pump from the lab...and never faffed about with the extra bits again.