The counter is the whole business
Sheave opened in 1997 as a bearing counter in a rented bay off Potgieter Street, and the counter is still the point of the place. You walk in with the old part in a Checkers packet, we put it on the bench next to a vernier, and you leave with the right one — not an order number and a story about Tuesday. Three of the four people standing behind that bench have been fitters themselves, which is why the first question is usually what the machine does rather than what the number on the box says. Rubbed-out part numbers, no-name imports, a bearing that has been sitting in a poultry house since 1988: bring it in. We have measured worse and we have not charged for it yet.
