Review: The Wall Mounted Thread Checker ***** What can I say? This product does exactly what it was built do to and has stood up the abuse of it. We have had the thread checker now almost six months now. There is nothing less that comes close. We have looked. How did we put it through its paces? Hire two high school students to help clean and organize a small boat building shop that’s been in need of it over twenty years. You know how crusty old guys get about knowing “where everything is in the shop”. Well now that he needs to write notes as reminders all the time, that’s not the case anymore. Enter the “summer interns”. Not knowing what a fastener even is and that they may threads, we needed this type of product. And a small sheet of plastic with holes wasn’t going to cut it. After going through bins upon bins and thousands of screws, nuts, bolts, etc. they can now tell the difference between #6 and #8 screw or nut. What taught them and expedited the project? The Wall Mounted Thread Checker. What more can be said? It looks damn good too. Hell it’s a modern art master piece you don’t mind looking at. It looks good mounted on wall. Review: Ascent Distribution ***** I need to put in a quick statement about Ascent Distribution, Outstanding customer service. The original order was lost by UPS. Ascent couldn’t have been more helpful and making sure we received a new one. They went way beyond what most companies would do to ensure satisfaction, calling after hours and with follow up emails. These people work their butts off even reopening the investigation when UPS closed it down. Thank you Ascent Distribution and specifically John. Consider them for your gauge and die needs. Review: UPS ** UPS as a company may care as to if your package is delivered, but the Los Angeles distribution center, “don’t like it, call a competitor, ha, ha, ha! …!” There needs to be a serious shake of management there. I would like to give a higher rating but I can't since my packages have to go through the LA center. After opening an investigation into the lost package, UPS closed it and left it at that. It took both myself and the seller, Ascent Distribution, to put pressure on UPS to reopen it. The follow up consisted of my driver arriving a few days later saying, “I don’t know what happened to your package because I delivered it here and a woman signed for it”. Really no woman was here that day. “Sign this form saying you didn’t receive the package, but if you do then from here on a signature will be required for every package”. Nice blackmail move driver. To make it better, during this exchange, my neighbor comes up to us with a package and hands it to the driver. The UPS driver had just delivered a package next door that belonged to the address down the street. I no longer wondered what had happened to my original package. I called the only number available for UPS, the national call center. I would have preferred to speak with someone locally because that is where the problem lies. Now the national call center actually cared enough to force a second review and was really upset over that exchange. They apologized profusely for it and promised someone from the LA office would call too. That did happen and within an hour. You saw the end quote above from our two minute conversation, of which I remain calm and composed throughout the call. The drive had made a mistake and was reacting badly to it. However and obviously management’s attitude permeates down to the drivers, “Look the package is being listed as lost, what do you care? It’s up to the driver if he wants to force a signature for all packages. Don’t like it, call a competitor, ha, ha, ha! …!”
