[Boatanchors] 51J-3 parts

[Jim Wilhite]

Gee Larry about 2 years ago I ordered a Standby Generator from Coleman 
Products which manufactures them  in Nebraska, Kearney I believe.  They put 
it on Yellow Freight there and shipped it to Southern Oklahoma.  Well two 
weeks later, I inquired about it and they couldn't find it.

In two days they called back (Coleman Products) and said it was in 
California.  Seems as if it went from Kearney, NE to Wichita, KS to OKC 
where it was put on a truck to California (according to Arnold, pronounced 
Kaleee-forneeaaaaa).

Well out on the left coast they didn't know where Sulphur, OK was so they 
sent it to Dallas, TX (I guess they never heard of Oklahoma City, where it 
came from).  Maybe they thought the Texans knew geography.  Anyway the 
Texans knew enough to send it to OKC where it could be put on an interline 
truck for Southern OK to get here.  By now Yellow Freight knows where the 
generators is, Oklahoma City.  Well I told the Yellow Freight person I 
needed it by Monday (all this is happening on Friday),  she agreed to have a 
triple trailer truck drop it off on the way to (guess where?) Dallas. 
Sulphur is 75 miles South of OKC.  The truck would stop at the Sulphur exit 
on I 35, just for little ole me (by now, this has been going on for 6 
weeks)..

The good old UNION driver didn't want to do that and the guy picking it up 
had to chase him 5 miles down the interstate to get him to pull over.  They 
finally located the generator in the front trailer and he didn't want to 
uncouple the back two to get it out.  After a call to Yellow headquarters, 
the UNION driver relented and we got the generator off the trailer.  All 
this on the road side of a busy Interstate highway.

The ONLY good thing.  The generator was undamaged.

Good luck on handles for the 388.  I just thought you might enjoy another 
story about incompetent freight companies  or maybe incompetent personnel.

73  Jim
W5JO




> Kinda mislabeled it but you get the idea.  I'd like to find a pair of 
> handles that go on the front of the R-388/51J-3.  Any extra's out there 
> anyplace.  These got bent in shipping, thank you very much seller for the 
> excellent job of putting the radio in one box with some newspaper stuffed 
> around it and then trusting it to UPS!
>
> BTW, as an added note, my new 75A-2A that was supposed to have been 
> delivered on the 25th has now been found to "have not been delivered" but 
> the more than competent and brilliant UPS folks.  A 26 X 26 X 26 or bigger 
> box containing this unit was scanned into the Mesa Terminal on the 25 for 
> delivery and suddenly "disappeared" into thin air.  I wonder what black 
> hole all this stuff that "disappears" in the their system does with all 
> the lost and damaged boxes/packages.
>
> so much for another Collins radio.  They asked if it could be replaced by 
> a "new, reused or other type of radio". HA!  Hopefully that means that 
> they are intending to spit up the cash as it was fully insured.
>
> I suspect that it was trashed in the terminal or transport somehow and 
> they just threw it into the dumpster.  We'll pay for it if anyone 
> inquires!
>
> Sullen and depressed.
>
> Larry
> W0OGH