After chasing my Sydney machinist for a bit and finally getting a "sorry too busy" reply I had to look elsewhere for someone to machine up my Caliper adapter. I was getting nowhere until I stumpled upon a comment in a 3D printing YT vid about a company that has branched out from PCB manufacture to doing 3D printing AND CNC machining... I have a quote for the Caliper bracket of about US$45.00 but they will confirm this after they review the CAD file. The company is PCBWay based in China by the looks of it but still... it may well be a way for others to get one off special CNC machining done at an affordable price.
Order is in... all paid for. US108 all up including DHL freight, that was more expensive than the machining. They did have EMS as an option but.... not all that sure of EMS from China. Still it is a bespoke item and it is still less than half what 2 companies down here wanted to even consider doing it.. plus they needed to quote for setup time. That is the problem when you dont have a machine shop in your back yard. Edit: just adding in a screenshot of the production order. Given that the caliper was quite cheap (Chinese knock-off Brembo) the conversion doesnt owe me a lot... far cheaper than some of the options I looked at.
Well, true to their word... It was completed and has been shipped within the 6 to 8 days. Lets see what it is like once it gets here..
Well the part has cleared Customs in Melbourne and is now in the hands of Australia Post. This could well be the longest part of the process. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
I had a parcel take 3 weeks from Melbourne to Albury just recently... tracking showed it go from Melb to Sydney and back to Melb then nothing for a week and then it arrived on my doorstep. The seller said 3 weeks is normal... umm wont buy from them again.. This was with Couriers Please.. not Aussie Post. In the meantime I had a parcel weighing almost as much delivered from the UK in 10 days... go figure.
Sorry to hijack your thread Andy, but I just wanted to add to your frustration with deliveries in Australia... I recently received an Australia Post alert telling me something was on its way and would be delivered that same day etc etc. As I had nothing I was waiting for I assumed it was a scam of some sort, but soon realised it was a legitimate message from Auspost. When I received a message saying my order had been delivered, I asked my mate to pop around to my place and see what was delivered. When he said there was nothing there, I rang Auspost to get there image of the delivery in case whatever it was had been stolen by a porch poacher. It turned out the item (wine) was what Auspost was returning to the sender as it was damaged in transit. The item was due for returning in early December 2022! So, not only hideously late, but instead of reporting the item had been delivered back to the sender (Sydney address), The Auspost system 'thought' the item was delivered to me. How can anything work properly with such useless systems? Technology is meant to assist the process(es) it is designed for not hinder them. The poor guy on the help desk was doing his best to say the message was an accident, but I could sense his frustration as I'm sure they get plenty of complaints about their system being flawed.
Well I am please to say my parcel has arrived.. Pretty good service overall. The bracket is as I expected... needs some deburring but that is easy. Now to decided what to do with it in terms of finish... I would prefer to have it Black anodised but cant seem to find anyone locally so it might be that I get it powder coated... hmm
