Ok, where do things stand as of 5-9-17:
- we've settled on the fastener method (through-hole 20mm long M2 bolts in black color, to match the black sorbothane gasket) + black M2 nuts.
- I ordered black 3M bumpon feet (2 small for the front and 2 large for the rear per kit) today. The bottom of the case does have holes for those conical aluminum feet you can buy from many sources, if you prefer to use those.
- Individual parts are pre-packaged with a bagging machine, PCBs are in anti-static custom-cut bags
- I'm going to be sending e-mails to people in batches to confirm shipping addresses, using a custom gmail address. If you see an e-mail from "SmallFryGBgeekhack", that's not spam, it's from me. Going by e-mail because while I've identified most people's usernames by their e-mails, over 50% of those who joined the GB have not been active on geekhack for a long time, some for years.
- ZealPC will be distributing Canadian orders, TechKeys will be distributing non-US or Canada orders.
- I will be getting shipping address updates for international orders first (so that we can organize and ship out the parts in bulk to Zeal and TechKeys first)
- mkawa/myself will be boxing and shipping US orders
- People who requested assembly from TheChemist will be getting assembly courtesy of myself. We may not have the switches you wanted on-hand, but I'll be contacting everyone who wanted assembly and discussing options individually. I'm currently already assembling 4 such kits, which will be shipped out within the next week.
- Since there are a hair over 50 US orders, it will take a while to package and ship them all, but bear with us.
- Finally the colors. I've done my best to assign the parts on hand to those who requested specific colors, and most people are getting what they ordered or close to that. There was no "medium blue" nor "dark blue" made, so those orders will be filled with brushed titanium. Light Blue, or Teal, or Aqua orders are getting the light aqua color I showed on photographs earlier (very nice color, it's a satin finish flat color that shows the brushed texture of underlying titanium well). All manners of bronze orders will be getting "bronze", which is a shimmery darker bronze color. All the colors are done with Cerakote on the outer-facing sides of the parts. Green orders will be getting green. THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PURPLE PARTS, so I apologize in advance to the few people who ordered purple but will be getting titanium gray instead.
- Just opened up one of the sealed bags with a raw titanium part--looks like it's uncoated brushed finish titanium. Still has a bit of machining oil on it, so dab that off with a paper towel before assembly.