Alfred
10-16-2006, 05:01 PM
Over the the last few years, I have been getting more and more parts that have had quality issues from minor to unusable.
I am finding myself more and more of having to clean up parts, correct things or send them back as they are just waaay off.
The biggest problem seem to be the Carbon Fiber parts.
Holes and edges are frayed. Carbon dust is caked on to the point that they need some major cleanup.
Holes are misdrilled by anything from a 1/4 to 1/2 a millimeter.
The latest was a couple of Carbon plates to change the Fury Expert from 9.3:1 to 8.45:1.
After a minor issue of receiving the wrong plates that was quickly identified with the help of Davidh and corrected by my supplier (thanks), I received the correct set.
Low and behold, no more is the ratio engraved but some cheap stickers have been put on to identify the ratio. Once removed, there will be no way of identifying what ratio they actually are.
Both plates when lay-ed on top of each other (and they should be identical) are of slightly different shape.
70% of the holes do not line up to each other.
Holes and edges are frayed
For the very 1st time, I now had to actually use a needle file and correct the holes by more then 1/2 a millimeter as they simple weren't vertically in line as they clearly should have been.
A job that should have taken 10 minutes at the most took over an hour.
By pure luck, at least they were the correct plates as once done the gear mesh was spot on.
In the last 2 years of about 25 parts:
3 of them had to be send back as they were beyond fixing
4-5 had nicks and dents in the metal surface that were more an aesthetic issue.
Half a dozen had to have flash removed
90% of carbon parts required "clean up", especially caked on CF dust in holes and edges.
Treated aluminum parts that give them the "quality look" are sealed in the same bag and knocking against each other, scratching the surfaces and ruining the "look".
Case in point:
The newest Flybar carrier.
Why is the Flybar carrier sealed in the same partition as the other aluminum parts so that they can knock together during transport?
Surely as a plastic sealing tool is used anyway, they could be easily sealed in their own compartments without an increase of required material?
MA is or has been seen as one of the Rolls Royce of helies, but lately this is falling down a bit.
I am finding myself more and more of having to clean up parts, correct things or send them back as they are just waaay off.
The biggest problem seem to be the Carbon Fiber parts.
Holes and edges are frayed. Carbon dust is caked on to the point that they need some major cleanup.
Holes are misdrilled by anything from a 1/4 to 1/2 a millimeter.
The latest was a couple of Carbon plates to change the Fury Expert from 9.3:1 to 8.45:1.
After a minor issue of receiving the wrong plates that was quickly identified with the help of Davidh and corrected by my supplier (thanks), I received the correct set.
Low and behold, no more is the ratio engraved but some cheap stickers have been put on to identify the ratio. Once removed, there will be no way of identifying what ratio they actually are.
Both plates when lay-ed on top of each other (and they should be identical) are of slightly different shape.
70% of the holes do not line up to each other.
Holes and edges are frayed
For the very 1st time, I now had to actually use a needle file and correct the holes by more then 1/2 a millimeter as they simple weren't vertically in line as they clearly should have been.
A job that should have taken 10 minutes at the most took over an hour.
By pure luck, at least they were the correct plates as once done the gear mesh was spot on.
In the last 2 years of about 25 parts:
3 of them had to be send back as they were beyond fixing
4-5 had nicks and dents in the metal surface that were more an aesthetic issue.
Half a dozen had to have flash removed
90% of carbon parts required "clean up", especially caked on CF dust in holes and edges.
Treated aluminum parts that give them the "quality look" are sealed in the same bag and knocking against each other, scratching the surfaces and ruining the "look".
Case in point:
The newest Flybar carrier.
Why is the Flybar carrier sealed in the same partition as the other aluminum parts so that they can knock together during transport?
Surely as a plastic sealing tool is used anyway, they could be easily sealed in their own compartments without an increase of required material?
MA is or has been seen as one of the Rolls Royce of helies, but lately this is falling down a bit.