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Bought a $220 tube roller for a job in Gary, and it sat in my shop for 8 months
I picked up a used manual tube roller last spring because I thought we'd be doing more small-bore spool work at the Gary refinery. Turns out the contractor went with pre-fab spools from another shop, so it sat under a tarp until I sold it last month for $90. That's $130 gone, plus the 60 mile round trip to pick it up. Lesson I keep relearning: don't buy tooling until the PO is signed. Has anyone else gotten burned buying gear for work that didn't come through, and how do you decide when to pull the trigger?
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janab878d ago
Did your buddy ever try to rent instead of buy for those one-off jobs? A friend of mine dropped close to a grand on a pipe beveler for a maybe-job, then the GC pulled the plug and it sat in his garage for a year. He finally started checking with the rental yard first, and it saved him from two more dumb buys.
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