- Location
- Indiana-Missouri
I got my warn axle back from Duthcman today. I sent it there to get cut down and re-splined to fit my ford f-250 44 front....Since warn does not support this axle, i had to get a longer one and re-machine it.
I expected to be able to do this work locally, i thought it would have been great to support local industry, especially since the machining sector is hurting so much....
It is SAD that in a place like chicago, i was either told "nope, its too hard, we can't do it" or "we have to anneal it, work it, rehardedn it, and that will be 350 bucks sir".........
so i was forced to send the shaft elsewhere, and I sent it to dutchman....for 55 bucks plus a 5 dollar surcharge to machine a thru hardened alloy shaft, they did the work well within thier promised timeframe, and nowdays so many vendors are over-promising and under-delivering, its refreshing when someone does what they say they will do.....
so here's a little :yelclap: for dutchman.....
I expected to be able to do this work locally, i thought it would have been great to support local industry, especially since the machining sector is hurting so much....
It is SAD that in a place like chicago, i was either told "nope, its too hard, we can't do it" or "we have to anneal it, work it, rehardedn it, and that will be 350 bucks sir".........
so i was forced to send the shaft elsewhere, and I sent it to dutchman....for 55 bucks plus a 5 dollar surcharge to machine a thru hardened alloy shaft, they did the work well within thier promised timeframe, and nowdays so many vendors are over-promising and under-delivering, its refreshing when someone does what they say they will do.....
so here's a little :yelclap: for dutchman.....
