Posted by Goose on August 15, 2019 at 07:46:02 from (166.182.80.59):
In Reply to: Parts people woes posted by Jon f mn on August 15, 2019 at 06:42:57:
I was once working on a Mercruiser outdrive unit on a boat where a bearing had seized and spun in the housing. Part of the number was obliterated. I wondered if it was a standard bearing that I could get faster and cheaper from a local bearing outlet than by ordering it from Mercury.
I went to one local bearing place, hoping they could match it. A stumpy little guy on the counter with a cigar in his face and an attitude took one look at it and said, "It would be a G** D***** waste of time to even try to find it", and handed it back to me.
I went to another bearing place and handed the bearing to a man behind the counter. He took a caliper out of his shirt pocket, took a couple of measurements, reached up on a shelf behind him, and handed me an exact copy of the bearing.
I was steamed! After I got home, I wrote an "interesting" letter to the manager of the first bearing place. As it happened, the company I worked for regularly did business with the first bearing place, and I frequently went there on company business. I never again saw that stumpy little guy with a cigar in his face.
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