You're not saying merdian is being dishonest? However, you're willing to put $100 on Trent earlier in the thread, lol.
Money speaks louder than words.
Maybe the mail man did it! Assume nothing!
You're not saying merdian is being dishonest? However, you're willing to put $100 on Trent earlier in the thread, lol.
Money speaks louder than words.
You are out of your mind. Thanks for the red rep too. Lol. When you grow up and realize how life really works maybe you will see the error of your ways. You have nothing to back you up, you havent done anything to impress anyone. It is MY country, just as it is yours. Your phony patriotism and attempt to use it as a tool to belittle me is a disgrace to my flag. The more you run your mouth, the more it shows how little you know. Bassel admitted back when i was getting my crap, i mean lathe from him that he did get some stuff made in China. How is that not outsourcing? And you wanna be a cop? My god man, maybe you better try the boy scouts first, if you can hack it.Hold on joe.....you crossed the line here. I mean big time. As one of the most outspoken american males you will ever run into what in the hell makes it your country.....You don't act like an american with values here with this post. Our bad history aside this is going to far even for you.....I'm actually in shock over this one.....you sound more like a fascist with those last few lines. We as america have always been open to a diversity of people from all over the world as long as they want to be here, learn our culture and even bring some of theirs here. If you take the pledge and work to help our nation your an american. Jesus christ I'm shocked. I am a very outspoken republican and a patriot but I can't abide by this. I hope you consider what you've said and can at least take it down and admend it. Or even apologize. Bassel does not outsource to china. The extrusions are done here. He pays machinst in his town of comerce mi. Last I checked he is bringing buisness here. He buys parts from american companies....both he and hightower buy chinese parts for the simple reason its impossible not to.....but he designed very good upgrades and is not just taking parts made by TAIG and putting them together. I digress....please think about this post.
I also want to say that this video was made and uploaded on the 6.....he could not have mailed it to himself as the amount would be different. I'm not sure but I don't think my mailman wears a uniform....in fact I know he doesn't. In fact I don't think I've ever seen any of my mail carriers from usps wear any.
Wow
I didn't think you were racist and a prejudice person. I know I wasn't born in the US, but I have been a citizen for over a 11 years now. Your reply says a lot about your character, and it's all the proof I need to validate my earlier post.
For your information, my Headstocks, H-channel, Dovetail are all made locally.
I support my local community as much as possible, but like John said its imposible to not have chines parts ( motor & controller and hand wheels) as for the rest, all american made.
I work with local machine shops, I never got anything fabricated overseas.
I know you might be too blind to see this , but the only common thing between my lathe and hightower's is the taig tailstock. I support my economy every chance I get, I have owned American made vehicles for the past 12 years and I would never buy a non American made vehicle.
Don't you dare question my patriotism towards the United States of America, which is by the way our country not your country. It's people like your self who gives Americas a bad name. I am truely disgusted by what you wrote.
I was honest even when I hung myself out to dry, I haven't lied about a single thing.
Now it seems that I've made matching shafts finished the cue and shipped him the part with the problem but not the parts that were fine???
I mailed these shafts, they look diffrent because one has a white ring and one doesn't I thought it would be a neat way to start marking shaft 1 and 2 and 3 would have a bullseye effect. That's all that is.
It doesn't seem odd that when I posted the tracking number larry asked about four times where's the pics trent? Felt weird to me.
Then he gets the cue and says there's no shaft and he videotaped it?
I post pics then larry disapears for about 72 hours then all of a sudden has a video with a box that has been duct taped and for some reason even tho its indicated to open on the top of the box he opens the bottom to reveal 2 wads of paper a cue butt missing paper and a empty box, with a transparent amount of supposed very heavy newspaper.
I've went so far out of my way on this I don't know what else to do.
Larry I don't have anymore rings like that, but I can make you 2 more shafts with black collars and ship them by Monday . That's the best I can do as far as trying to make the people on az happy.
I know I shipped the shafts, I didn't build them and then just scrap them for fun sir.
This is as far as my genorosity towards this will go tho.
And I think your comming out of this pretty fairly all things considered.
Dude i quit rocking the rambo bandana a long time ago. I wear a black baseball cap, backwards of course. The flame thrower is tuned up but it hasnt seen action in years though. Lol. Ill try to tone down my "emotions" or whats left of them. Lol.Dude I have a Glock in my shitter. Seriously. No one is more gun nuts than me.
But the way my mind works I just see funny shit when it starts rolling. Like a mental pic of you in full kit and armor standing at the lathe going "Hut hut hut hut" like the SWAT team in Blues Brothers.
Same way I can see Snipershot in his garage with a red bandana on his head priming his flame thrower muttering about "Damn Commie machine tool makers......"
It has no basis in reality or fact I just think up dumb stuff. Personally I think this thread at this point in time is the perfect place for observations of this nature. Don't take it personal.
When a thread jumps the shark this hard there is no use fighting it. It will all be gone soon anyway. The good ones always are.
Edit: By the way when it comes to shooting you can bet high as a giraffes ass on shooting an El Prez, Triple Nickel, any VTAC drill or random USPSA or IDPA match.
That's not the reaction of someone who just got ripped off.
Because I didn't go through all the trouble of making the shafts and boxing them up to just not send them.
Let alone go through all the apology and what not over this aswell.
This is just wrong, larry you need to take pics of the shafts and stop trying to ruin me as you have said you wanted to do since the start of this.
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What does this mean?...
Yeah, why did Meridian say - "Just so that you guys can see the inside of the box, there indeed is no shaft"
Which tells me, he -
- Knew that there would be no shaft
- seems that he made the video "after" the fact, "after" the whole argument, to prove his point.
The only logical explanation is that he mailed the package to himself, because the shaft was not to his liking, and then video taped the whole thing.
And, If I am wrong about this, Trent, you son of a b1tch.![]()
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What does this mean?...
Not sure what it means, but it's a photo of PS form 3849, it's multi-use delivery signature form. In this case, it looks like it was used for a signature delivery confirmation.
The key here folks is 2:09 in the youtube video. If you look closely just below where the duct tape ends, you can see where the USPS tape that was on the box in Trent's photo has been peeled off the box and replaced with the duct tape. From the middle of that end of the shipping container, the bottom half still has the blue Priority Mail tape under the duct tape while the top half has the blue color of the box removed and the white cardboard is showing. Only time that white cardboard shows is when someone removes the packing tape from it. That said, someone ripped that end of the carton open and retaped it with duct tape on purpose.
First off, the post office doesn't stock duct tape to retape boxes that have broken open. They only use clear packing tape and that blue Priority Mail tape to reseal packages. I would think it unlikely that someone within the USPS would put duct tape on a opened container like this.
Two, I've seen duct tape on packages go through the mail system. The tape here looks pristine like it was just put on. It's not scuffed in any way at all, which I find highly improbable if it had come through the mail system taped like that.
Just my humble 2 cents worth coming from a former postal worker.