Scott, I sure hope you are successful this time.
73, Bob Nobis - N7RJN [email protected] > On Jun 22, 2016, at 11:05, Scott Bastian <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andy, and others regarding the delays in the SIDE KX products for the > KX3/PX3 covers. I am Scott of GEMS Products. > Most of you have been keeping up with my web page updates. Here is a quick > summary: > My plastic fabricator was a very talented one man shop and in May of 2015 he > contracted Tuberculosis and was hospitalized in grave condition. This put me > into a temporary back order as I awaited his recovery. But the Health > Department came into his shop and quarantined it for 120 days and I was not > able to get even my molds out of his shop. Now it is Sep my fabricator is > still unable to return to work, but I get the molds out to a total of 4 shops > each of which were unable to produce parts for a reasonable cost. During > this time I had begun to move my parts over to injection molding. I employed > a new fabricator and he built a mold and it took several revisions that did > not produce a good part. Taking my project on a dual track and multiple > shops cost 4 months and several thousand dollars. Now it is late January and > I have a viable injection molder who has taken on the project for KX3 and PX3 > covers. To create a mold is a 6 week process in the mill and to get it polis hed out before the first prototype part is made. Ithen have to do a modification for fitment issues. back in the mill and polishing for another 4 week time penalty. Just last week I was able to approve the mold and have it shipped to me. I am awaiting its delivery in the next 7 or so days. > So during this tie I have made many web updates to keep folks uptodate. I > have a significant back order on parts and my customers have been nothing > short of amazing with their patience. I thank each of them for this. > Please hang in there the mold is about here and the parts will be made just > as soon as I take delivery and can get it set up and running. The beauty of > injection molding is the speed at which parts can be made. As they come off > the machine and are inspected will be printing shipping labels and getting > parts out to you. > 73 Scott AK6Q > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
