Shingouki28
Sr Member
Re: ANH Hero DL-44 Discussion - Two Greeblies FOUND, Update in 1st Post
He's gonna have a busy Christmas!:lol
He's gonna have a busy Christmas!:lol
We should have done a group buy :facepalm
It wouldn't have mattered since he doesn't have them "in stock". They're made to order and such a large order would have been cancelled anyway.
I got a new message from Malcolm Reade, the owner, that I think is an important update for all of us to read...
"We have been inundated (overwhelmed even) with orders for the dummy radial engine cylinders from around the world since early this morning.
I did explain to the guy who made the original enquiry that:
a) I broke my leg a couple of weeks ago
b) My father (who made the mould for the cylinders originally) was in the final stages of lung cancer. He died last Tuesday and we had his funeral yesterday.
c) That the mould is very old and worn and that any manufacturing using it is an absolute swine of a job, pulled muscles, burned hands etc.
I am a one-man business operating in my spare time (I am a nuclear engineering physicist by profession) and manufacture injection moulded boat and aero plane parts at weekends. It used to be my father's business.
My injection moulding machine is a single shot 0.75 ounce manually operated bench-top affair, some sixty years old. It's only slightly younger than me!
I guess by now you are getting my message that I just can't cope with the volumes of these cylinders that you guys require, leastwise not all at once!
I have had to take my web site down, and will be attempting to refund via PayPal all those who ordered cylinders from us today.
My best regards
Malcolm Reade"
So, many of us may be getting refunds today, but it sounds like he'll just need time to catch up with these and start taking orders again later. Unfortunately, it was terrible timing for him with the holidays and his father's passing.
I wonder who the guy is he mentioned that made the original inquiry?
Nice catch on that 3rd ANH greeblie too, Chris! I didn't even recognize it until you pointed it out. I wonder now if there's anything else in this kit that they might have used?
-Carson