Help! Custom Leaning Post Gone Bad ...

[dcobbett]

Arc-Tek built a post for me back in February. When I went down to see the operation and place my order, it looked like he was busy. There were a lot of boats in the yard, most for T tops. My simple 2 week project (taking one of his standard posts and scaling it down) actually took 4+ weeks. When I went to pick it up, he said he and his partner had a falling out right after they started my post, he was way behind and didn't see a way out of the backlog scenerio. It seemed to me that the partner was more the "worker", and Jim was more of the sales and marketing type. He also said (basically) that he hoped I was happy with the post 'cause he was not in a position to do anything with it if I was not!

All in all, the product he made for me is fine. There are a couple of welds that didn't get the best grinding job, and some of the tubing still had reference marks on it. No issues structurally, it has been used a lot this season and it has held up fine.