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The struggles of manufacturing
Quote from: D-Rock425 on February 28, 2016, 01:16:20 PMThe struggles of manufacturing American supply chains have gotten to be horrible! Two weeks delivery usually means three months, "To Print" usually means roughly in the ball park, and "Here, I fixed it for you!" has become common place - even though they have no idea what it is you are doing. There has even been a high occurrence of "I knew they were not coming out to spec, but we ran 5,000 anyway. If you would like us to run them again we would be happy to. But first you need to pay us for all the bad parts and the new ones will cost you 125% more." Uline, the cardboard, plastic bag and warehouse supplies distributor with the DC in Auburn, WA has been an exception to that rule. Anyone on here that works for them...You guys ROCK!!
The first run of DelMastro and Vandyke 125 ferrules were rejected due to poor finish and shallow blade-pin holes. That vendor has decided he is no longer interested in working with titanium. Guess it is too expensive to make parts wrong. So we have now purchased our own machine to make the titanium ferrules. Programs are being worked on now. But it looks like I will not have production ferrules and packaging for either the new 125 or the Deep Six model until April 1st.I will let people know if they are available sooner than this.
One of the things this has allowed us to do was work and experiment on the design a little more. That has allowed us to fine tune materials and techniques leading to a head with the exact same scalloping as the 100 grain. So it is a bit different than the ones D-Rock tested last year. We are very excited about the result. Just need to get them out the door now.
Only difference is the RPS is slightly longer to accommodate the larger weight collar. And that weight collar is now Stainless Steel instead of titanium.