People and Machinery

Can someone please explain to me what people have against machinery? I am in the process of renovating a C&P 10x15 and beside the .25” worth of grease/ink/dirt all over the press, the mouse nest remains, obscure plant matter and what not. I am appalled at the condition of the shaft mounts. Threads are fine but in every situation I have pulled a shaft or arm off, there are ridiculous gouges in them, as if someone thought there ought to be a set screw in the oil holes and then hatefully ran the poor press.

Sorry, I just needed to vent and honestly, I don’t frequent anywhere else online that would understand how I feel right now.
Anyone else want to share? I can’t be the only one.

Brian
Illuminated Press
Poultney VT.
(slowly coming together!)

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Unfortunately that is the way some people are. Some are mechanically inclined and some are not, the one’s that are not tend to try and make repairs on equipment and don’t have the proper tools or skill to make said repairs without carnage along the way.

Also some will look at it and say “it’s a machine, what do I care if it get’s scratched/dented/dinged..” Where other people keep a press you could eat off of!

Proper press maintenance……some are to lazy to oil and grease a press like it should be and then wonder why parts wear out or why the press doesn’t operate smoothly.

The reasons are endless sad to say.

I honestly cannot understand it. If you are going to own presses and run them, then at bare minimum you ought to be able to maintain it. I guess the best I can do is make sure that the next generation knows better, which is going well! My shop gnome is 3 and seems to know more about caring for tools than many adults I know!

Brian

I know…..you see the same thing with people and their cars…..spend good money on a new car/truck and can’t even take it through a car wash once and a while, then go and sell it and they don’t get 1/2 what it would be worth if they took care of it.

My Grandfather once said…. “a car was nothing but a cold piece of steel to get you from point A to point B.

A great man, but that was his thought on vehicles. He had said that after seeing my fathers nice clean truck in the garage at our house one day. Wasn’t directed at my father just his thoughts in general and needless to say it reflected the way my Grandfather kept his car/truck and farm equipment.

You can rest easy knowing your doing the right thing and by passing that along to your next generation your helping keep alive the simple principal of “take care of what you own and it will take care of you”

I don’t even want to get into the topic of people and their cars. Much like machinery I am appalled at how people treat their cars.