Gents,

Here's my weekends goings on. The Gecko G540 drive (the magic electronic box that sends out 1's and 0's to my axis drive motors) decided that it had done enough heavy lifting and died a horrible, smokey death. Good news is that I have a spare, bad news is that I had to tear my mill down, disassemble the electronics control enclosure, remove dead board, and reverse the entire process with the spare. The mill is once again alive and it cutting aluminum as we speak. I should have 6 kits ready to ship on Tuesday, not the 15 that I had originally planned on having. I also have 12 more people waiting on my next spring order to come in, and an additional 3 people waiting for the additional 7 folks required for me to get the volume discounts on the springs and shipping from the new vendor. I don't want to make excuses, but this is taking a lot longer than I like and I'm sure some of you might be getting tired of having to wait. Given that, if you've placed a deposit already and no longer wish to wait, please let me know and I'll gladly refund your money, including the bite that Paypal takes out of it.

Going forward it looks like I'll have Friday evenings and weekends to work on these kits since my day job has gotten very busy again. Being the primary RF High Power amplifier designer for a prime government contractor is good, but I have to answer to them first so we can continue to eat and my daughters can continue to attend college :)

Seriously, I'm sorry for all the bumps in the road that have happened lately.....I'll gladly refund your deposits if any of you have grown weary of waiting.

Thanks,

Ron