Ever have a project that nothing goes right?
 

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.

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!)

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

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.

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

I find as I get older stuff like this happens more often. :rolleyes:
- 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.

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.

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.

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
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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......

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

Never heard of this movie...

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

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

I paid to have that car towed away...

"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.

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

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

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

Went to change a pickup in a guitar last night. My eyesight is getting too bad to solder small stuff anymore and it took me so long to get it soldered, that I fried the pot. The mirror pickguard was already pretty haggard and I also broke it. So now I have to try to find that pickguard again, which I got on eBay years ago. Found the seller and am waiting to see if he can cut me another one. I have another new push/pull pot, but that guitar sits in pieces now until I get the new pickguard.

I’ve found that most vehicles I work on are over engineered, as I often have a left over nut or bolt.

Ever have a project? Lately every project i have :rolleyes:

Pretty much everything on my current project. A mix of old, other newer parts, some new but re-purposed stuff and most often nothing works out.........ever the 1st go 'round.

Latest is working on making the front end steering geometry correct as it was way off before. Also I found out that the chassis (1976 Surburban) was originally equipped with heavy duty front brakes. I did not know this before working on the front-end. Very rare option. The spindles are 2" lowered aftermarket attached to original lower control arms that have been moved inward @6" coupled to tubular upper control arms with spherical pivot bushings. Steering is now power Thunderbird rack.

So I go to rebuild the calipers and find the O-ring and boot are too small. After ordering another same kit, same result. I can only deduce that it has HD brakes although I've never run into this on a 1/2 ton chassis in my entire life. Research proves this correct but I can't find any listing in online parts sources. I do cross-reference OE part numbers to then find the correct rebuild kit, finally.

I had already ordered drilled / slotted aftermarket rotors, had them re-drilled to fit my wheels. I go to put them on and find the inner bearing is .125" larger inner bore which obviously does not fit my spindles which are not heavy duty.....great. I look online and find steel tubing with the correct ID / OD so to make up the difference on the inner bearing surface. I get the pipe, cut and sledge it on, then hand fit until the inner bearing just fits. I go to install the rotor assy and now find the hub bore for the inner bearing needs recessed by @.200 deeper. Apparently the HD spindles are not only larger they are also longer with the inner bearing located @.200 inward. F****.

Back to the machine shop, he sinks the inner hub bore as requested and with some fiddling it all comes together.

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Looks like the front end might have been from a 1-ton? ^

No, it's definitely 1/2 ton, but with bbc 454 with towing package from '76 Surburban

Seems almost every project I get into requires every tool I own. I must make 10 trips back to the garage to get another tool.

I have to think long and hard to remember one where anything went right:)

I recently had a simple project that everything went like it should, and I almost felt cheated.

Recently after 373,000 miles on the El Camino the turn signal stalk broke off. It is not just a turn signal stalk, it also controls the windshield wipers, and the high beams and the cruise control. Fack!

So to replace it, off comes the steering wheel using the special puller. Then the lock plate than locks the steering wheel in place when the key is not inserted. And then......

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A few more parts.

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To get the switch wires out, and the new one back in, the steering wheel itself has to be dropped and a plate that holds it in place removed. I did fortunately, have a new GM switch on hand that I bought long ago. The quality GM or Delco parts are hard to find, all the parts now are the Dorman garbage, or Chinese made garbage.

Anyway reassembly is just the reverse of disassembly. It took me a couple of days, and it sure is nice to have a comfortable garage and a second car to get around with.

Exactly right. If all goes well, I also feel cheated- out of cursing, *****ing and whining.

Also, I never leave a hammer within reach😁😁