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Increases in parts across the board...

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digger doug

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crane operator said:
I read a article that said a lot of brake drums were made in ukraine. If that supply is shut down, every other supply gets taxed to make up for the shortfall.
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Used to be they were made in Erie, pa.
EMI "Erie Malleable Foundry" ended up making tons of them, put in a machine shop so they would supply them
completely done.
They closed maybe 15 years ago, work went offshore.
 
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Digger Doug brought up a good point about off-spec products. I’m hearing reports of off-spec DEO. Mostly 15w-40. Blenders are switching additive suppliers and using what they can find. That’s a gray area. I haven’t heard any horror stories. Just weird looking oil sample reports.
 
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Social media is so messed up. Don’t even know if I’m even chatting with a real person or a bot. So polarizing. I’m glad we all sorta get along.

Time to come clean. I’m actually a young Chinese lady named Jia Ling. I work in a Shanghai text farm. 6EB72B27-8241-4169-8085-007613202AF1.jpeg
 
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LowBoy said:
Bad news is...a drum that I bought 2 years ago at $130.00 each is now $295.00 each. The shoe kits (although not earth-shatteringly expensive,) went from around $50.00 a wheel to $90.00 a wheel Friday. That caught my attention.
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I just unloaded a pallet of 20-1657VB outboard drums today at the shop $136.21 each. RK4707Q23 shoe
kits $47.96 each. Setting on 40 drums stock piled right now but those won't last long.
 
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Injection pump parts went up 65% across the board.!!!
I haven’t raised my prices tho..
It’s gonna reach into my pocket sooner or later and I won’t be able to help out very much..
 
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thepumpguysc said:
Injection pump parts went up 65% across the board.!!!
I haven’t raised my prices tho..
It’s gonna reach into my pocket sooner or later and I won’t be able to help out very much..
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Yeah, I've got a customer's Chevy UPS style walk-in delivery van here converted to a food truck. It's got a 6.2L GM diesel, and the injection pump's bad. I saw them (reman) for around $400.00 last time I searched one out about 6 months ago...I wonder what they're going for now...? I need to get that thing running and outa here asap, it's been sitting here for a year and it's in my way something awful. Last conversation with him was about me carrying it down to his new residence in Wilmington, NC, and I'd rather just push it on/pull it off the trailer down there than have to change the pump in that thing honestly.

I kinda got this thing dumped in my lap by this guy a year ago, and it's getting old having it here. He just needed to get it outa where he had it, and me being Mr Nice Guy went and got it outa there and brought it home. Then he starts giving me a list of stuff to fix on it to make it road worthy. I have PLENTY to do on my own iron all the time, constantly...so finding time for outside work is pretty tough. I like the second option of hauling it to NC and making it disappear.
for me.
 
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