The sheet metal parts (and PEM) for your S3 were made by a different vendor than weâre using now. In fact, we ditched the old vendor about 1 batch into shipping the machine last year - his quality wasnât up to our standard, and a lot of the PEM nuts he delivered had to be repressed here in our shop.
Weâve never had a problem with the PEMs from our new vendor.
The other thing is that because the parts are pre-assembled - the PEMs will be shipped in tension (with locktite) so the chances of something coming loose are pretty slim. I think youâll be pleasantly surprised with what youâre getting.
The machines are shipping out FIFO style (first in, first out) - however. If we get to a point where we canât ship one variant, weâll just move on to the next and continue shipping until we can restock the part(s) that are missing.
Right now weâre only shipping full XXL kits, simply because the wasteboards for the XL size kits just showed up today.
Next week weâll begin shipping the XL full kits as well as the upgrades.
Iâve never received a CNC machine that took less than 8 weeks to fabricate and ship. Once of them nearly fell of a truck and crushed me (I had words with the trucker about proper safety procedures. Moving a thousands bounds around is not delivering a book or gadget).
I donât mind waiting⌠but I do appreciate knowing when something will ship/arrive!
I think he means âmail orderâ more along the lines of: tear the order form out of the catalog, fill in the quantities and item numbers, and prices. Calculate your total. Write a check or write down your charge card info. Find an envelope. Lick a stamp. Mail. Wait 2-6 weeks and hope nothing got lost, botched, or what have you along the way. No tracking numbers. No instant order support.
Certainly donât miss those daysâŚthough I have some nostalgia for flipping through catalogs and dreamingâŚâwhat ifâŚâ
Exactly. If you needed to talk to the company you were ordering from, you had to pull out the phone book to see what time zone they were in. If you wrote a check, youâd have to wait for it to clear before they started filling your order, hoping there were not any issues, no back-orders, or damaged goods. No tracking, no email, if you were lucky and nothing went wrong, you would end up with a package with everything you ordered sometime in the distant future. Usually if anything was wrong with the order you would have to send it back with a note before it would be addressed and corrected.
@edwardrford
Given that units will be hitting doorsteps as early as tomorrow (if not today -Monday- in some cases), is the new documentation you referred to at some point now available for consumption somewhere? Obviously, due to some design changes and due to pre-assembly, the finishing assembly, calibration, and optimization steps could be reasonably different from the original SO3 manual. Also, it would be great to know if the GRBL firmware and the default settings have been pre-burned specifically for the XL or XXL configurations and capabilities. If the settings are stock SO3, a table of deltas for the XL and XXL configurations would be a great short-term alternative.
