Ever have a project that nothing goes right?

[pete3799]

This started about a month ago now.
I put my stainless steel sander in the back of my 1 ton truck and hooked up the hydraulic hoses. Start the truck up, turn the sander on and walk back to spray some lube on the bed chain. About half way around one of the links on the bed chain breaks and the chain starts to get wound up on the drive sprocket. Run to the front and turn the sander off but by now the chain is toast (old chain .....poop happens) fire up the smoke wrench and cut it apart. Now the fun begins.

Google to the rescue ...... sort of.
Order a chain from an outfit in Oh. Supposed to be the right one according to my measurements. Chain arrives and nope wrong pitch on the chain, won't fit my sprockets.
Long story short they can't get what i need. So i ship the chain back $105.00 out the window ( no refund yet).

Back to Google and find a place in Il. that says they have what i need. Send it.
That one arrives and looks to be just what i need.....until i pull it into the sander and it comes up 8 inches short (adjusters shortened all the way). F me.

Back to Google. I need 10 links of chain (5 each side) and i'm back in business.
Find a place in Ca. that sells a 4 pack of repair links so i order 3 packs (12 links)
and........you guessed it..... i just opened the package and they sent me three (3) individual links.

Excuse me while i head to the liquor cabinet.

[herr_oberst]

It's like someone put voodoo on the project.

Damn your eyes, sander gods!

(Remember, this run of events has a corollary. There WILL be a job goes absolutely perfectly from start to finish!)

[stevej37]

For me...one fix always leads to three more.

[pwd72s]

Not me. All my projects go exactly as planned.

[A930Rocket]

When I finish working on a project, I stand back proudly, glowing in my achievement, until I see a part laying on the floor or workbench….😂

My work motto is: why do it once, when you can do it twice.

[flatbutt]

I think we've all been there but let me tell you about my last gf....talk about nuthin' goin' right.

[sc_rufctr]

I find as I get older stuff like this happens more often.
- Just keep going...

Any chance of posting a pic of the "stainless steel sander"?
I can't think of any that use a chain... Or I've never seen one anyway. It must big a big one.

[LWJ]

And this. Your wife criticizes the contractor because the work quality is not up to par.

What is par? Par is ME. My work. Yet, she insists that we hire it out.

Damn you catch 22.

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

I think we've all been there but let me tell you about my last gf....talk about nuthin' goin' right.

Unless she knows anything about "sander chain" he doesn't want to hear it.

But if she knows anything about "sander chain" and she's hot, we wanna see pics.

[pete3799]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

I find as I get older stuff like this happens more often.
- Just keep going...

Any chance of posting a pic of the "stainless steel sander"?
I can't think of any that use a chain... Or I've never seen one anyway. It must big a big one.

Can't find a picture of my truck with the sander in it but it looks like this

And goes in the back of this

[pete3799]

Ops ...first picture didn't load

[Jeff Higgins]

[rusnak]

I had to chase down electric parts, cable, plastic rollers, and chain to put my light tower back together after the chain broke and the whole tower came crashing down. It took probably a month of chasing down parts before I could put it all together. Chain came from a place called Motion Industries. I had glass cut, tempered, and bevelled to make 4 new lenses too. Talk about a bad day......



The upside is that it's worked flawlessly for over 9 years now.

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Never heard of this movie...

"the b***h dont live here!" LOL. Gonna have to watch this one.

[Nostril Cheese]

I ended up with an Audi A6 2.7 twin turbo. Didnt buy it (thank god)

I paid to have that car towed away...

[PorscheGAL]

"Ever have a project that nothing goes right?"

All the f'in time. The only people who feel no frustration in a project are the ones who never do anything.

A few month ago I started a post about when to get out of Porsches. All of that came from a project that didn't not go right at every single turn.

Good luck with the sander.

[shadowjack1]

Originally Posted by pete3799

Ops ...first picture didn't load

I had no idea what a sander was/is, until now.

[Zeke]

^^^^You and me both. But I'm in SoCal.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

When I finish working on a project, I stand back proudly, glowing in my achievement, until I see a part laying on the floor or workbench….😂

I've got an extensive used hardware collection. The best.

[craigster59]