Soliloqueen's k87(k67) and k47 capsules

[ElSmurf]

"But nobody will notice..."
" - I do!"

I love following this thread because your commitment (or is it obsession) to detail is just ridiculously inspiring!

 

[soliloqueen]

"But nobody will notice..."
" - I do!"

I love following this thread because your commitment (or is it obsession) to detail is just ridiculously inspiring!

my attention to detail is middling at best if i shipped capsules with dezincified screws, even if they're coated and won't get worse. i need to inspect in different lights. it's so obvious in photographs

 

[soliloqueen]

these k87s are coming on hot, tested them all at my desk. the single sided flat k47s got done early too, so i think i can get everything but the single sided k47vs out before christmas. to most of you delivered before christmas, even. i am prioritizing the k87s though, as the flat k47s were bought with the knowledge that they'd arrive after. if you get your cardioid flat k47 before christmas, surprise

 

[Екатерина]

It shouldn't be dezincifying at all because it's supposed to be naval brass... Troubling. I might need to drop another supplier. The screws are coated during assembly so they shouldn't get any worse but hmm. I need to pay closer attention when I'm inspecting these. It can be difficult to see something like this at the desk when the screws are already kind of greasy looking. I should get a loupe. I'm going to hit up our supplier for the insulated screws in the k87 to see if they want to make all the brass screws too. That would be exorbitantly expensive compared to the current screws but I know them really well and trust them.

in the meantime we'll put them in the witch's cauldron of pickle liquor and anti-corrosion juice we use in-house for the parts that we know are prone to dezincification. it's not like we don't have a procedure for handling high zinc parts. we just weren't supposed to need to do it for the screws.
it's amazing how many small parts suppliers will just straight up lie for no reason. if they'd told us what brass these were, we literally do our pickling and anticorrosives in-house so it would have taken all of 30 minutes to solve this problem. ******'.
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Good day, as far as I know, the vast majority of suppliers are just agents and do not have the ability to produce, so they themselves do not know which ones are Alpha brass and Navy brass

 

[soliloqueen]

Good day, as far as I know, the vast majority of suppliers are just agents and do not have the ability to produce, so they themselves do not know which ones are Alpha brass and Navy brass

yeah, that's the feeling i get. the supplier that makes our insulated k87 screws is a real manufacturer. they do tons of work for Volkswagen and a lot of other high precision screw parts. They're in a different league. I'm getting a quote from them on custom naval brass screws.