A past Shop Story

Something occured the otherday that reminded me of this story, hope you don't mind me rambling. Working at the implement in the mid 70's our parts manager came into the shop ripping me a new one because he was missing a variable speed drive belt for combines. He assumed we used it in the shop and did not charge it out. I bet someone sold it and never marked it down. Anyway he was doing the annual parts return and had a authorization tag permitting him to return it to CASE because it was a slow moving part. POed because he could not find that expensive belt was afraid the boss would be upset at him. While he was pacing around I notice A used bicycle tire laying under the work bench. I grabbed it and said here put the damn tag on this and send it in with the returns. He scolded me and said he won't do that because CASE would then have reason to refuse the entire return. I told him first of all the person sorting through the return may not have the foggiest idea what that part is suppose to look like, and second if they did know what it was they would get a good laugh and just refuse that part which we did'nt have anyway. Well to make a long story short, we never heard a word back from CASE. They issued full credit for that part. TRUE STORY. I have often wondered if someone kepted that tire tagged a hanging on a wall as a trophy of the dumb stuff people returned. Rod.

LOL keep'em coming Rod LOL cnt tom

That's a good one! Today your lucky to find a good parts guy. The other day I stopped at the parts store and handed the counter person a condenser, and he asked what is it to? An AC B tractor. He hunted and hunted on the computer for 10 min. I was ready to go in the back and look for it myself. Finally another guy looked at it and grabbed a box off the shelf and matched it to the one I brought. I miss the days of counter guys that could find the right part the first time. Not saying they don't exist, just few and far between.

Had U-joint go out on the PTO shaft on my IH grinder-mixer. Took it to IH dealer. Guy behind counter said we don't have anything around here that takes U-joints that big. Go to NAPA, young kid working. Looks at it and says can't help you. Go to local owned parts store and laid part on counter. Said can you help me. He said looks like you have a U-joint out of a old chevy 2 ton truck. Grabs one off the shelf and it matches right up. Never look on computer, never looked in a book and never ask what it fit.

Hee hee, when dad needed a part {older part} he would take us boys along to help find it upstairs at the case dealer cause it mostly likely hanging up in or on the floor of an old dairy barn. God Bless

We have a good parts man at Torgersons in Great Falls, MT, but then he's had some good teachers on both the Case and IH sides.

Really?????.......we ordered a belt for a CASE combine and got an innertube. It worked great!!!!

I love it when a plan works out! LOL, Rod.