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charlie n · Mar 24, 2020

pi$$ me off. Between the shelter and the rain I gotta vent .
I'm tuning up a Kalamazoo band saw . Called Michigan yesterday and ordered some parts. Within 2 hours they're on the way. Fantastic. Get on Ebay and ordered some bearings from Ohio
and some from New York. Both shipped yesterday. Fantastic.
Just checked the tracking on all orders. Michigan and New York orders are in St.Louis. Get'em tomorrow. Ohio order is in Mississippi. Now I didn't go to college but I know a straight line is the shortest route. Cincinnati is 350 miles from St.Louis. I just figured up and the package is gonna travel a little over 900 miles by the time it gets to me. Maybe the USPS should hire UPS dispatchers .

Say safe everybody.We're gonna get thru this. On the bright side ,only 10 weeks till the first hay round.

SVcummins · Mar 24, 2020

It has to go where the distribution centers are . If I send a
letter to my neighbor a mile a way it has to travel almost 500
miles to get to him

Bob · Mar 24, 2020

I have a Kalamazoo handsaw, as well, and was wondering if the company still supplies parts.

GUESSING you may have been in contact with the factory folks?

charlie n · Mar 24, 2020

They always seem to have what I need in stock. The saw I have was built in the early 50's. Good Luck.

https://clausing-industrial.com/partsService.asp

Bob · Mar 25, 2020

(quoted from post at 23:00:24 03/24/20) They always seem to have what I need in stock. The saw I have was built in the early 50's. Good Luck.

https://clausing-industrial.com/partsService.asp

THANKS.

Will save me from having to figure out who supports them now.

db4600 · Mar 25, 2020

If I send a letter to the neighbor 1 mile north of me it goes 8 miles east of me to be sorted and then the mailbag delivers it somewhere 3 miles west of me!

SVcummins · Mar 25, 2020

I lied it only has to go 300 miles . Before 120 but they closed that mail building

db4600 · Mar 25, 2020

Our?s has nubmer dyslexia so we have a neighborhood sharing program.

Philip d · Mar 25, 2020

They do that with our mail here. Even if you were mailing
someone in your own community .it generally takes 6 days. It
literally leaves the province and goes to a regional sorting
before coming back to PEI. Still costs the same but it has
quite a few miles on it to get to town up the road.

showcrop · Mar 25, 2020

Charlie, you may feel better if you get a quote from a courier service (straight line) for shipping your package. Or you could just go ahead and specify next day shipping on your packages.

BarnyardEngineering · Mar 25, 2020

Just because the seller is in Ohio, does not mean the bearings are in Ohio. "Drop shipping" from locations far from the seller's base of operations is common.

Even if the package origin says Ohio in the tracking...

Gene Davis (Ga.) · Mar 25, 2020

I have a Kalamazoo 610 D horizontal band saw from the 1950's and the brass worm gear wore out. I was really
pleased to be able to get what I needed for parts from Clausing. They were very nice and helpful even sent me a
parts book and a manual for it. Now it can run another 60 years
Gene Davis

ss55 · Mar 25, 2020

If the shipper says the item will be delivered to you by day X, and that actually happens, does it really matter whatever route was taken?

SVcummins · Mar 26, 2020

Hopefully not to many discreet brown paper boxes ?

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