Dan L. wrote:

I have a question and I would like to tell all prospective
metalworking machine buyers of a painful/expensive experience I had
with Smithy:



Ah feel your pain Dan....But, three years after the purchase is a bit
late to start complaining to them. After all, they are not marketing
their products like household appliances and automobiles to people who
generally have no need for technical knowledge about how they should be
designed and what the normal industry performance standards should be.

You pretty much admitted that it was your lack of knowledge that made
you take so long to realize that you'd bought what you now consider a
POS. Consider your monetary losses as the price of some education and
move on. It's only iron (and pot metal too I guess), not flesh and blood.

I certainly wouldn't blame you for deciding never to buy from them
again, but denigrating the company on this newsgroup isn't really going
to accomplish much other that letting you blow off some steam. I suppose
that's a good thing, I'd hate to think of you "going postal" over it.G

Just my .02,

Jeff - Who learns from mistakes, but prefers that they are mistakes made
by others....


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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying."