Thought that "all" problems had finally been solved, and others had already taken their place.
The knurled ones all look
good and I was able to add more than three hundred parts
to nickel including them.
Today, however, nickel
plating is used with processes that simply no longer
correspond to the quality of that time.
What is meant is that
today's process is "too perfect" for my parts!
This means that many of
the newly nickel-plated screws cannot be screwed
together with the knurled nuts!
Regrooving the
nickel-plated threads permanently damages my tools, now
good advice is expensive .
Another negative point
is the increasingly bad parts, which I had purchased
directly from Vibroplex USA. Unfortunately, they no
longer meet my quality standards in any way!
The silver contacts are
square blocks, the knurled nuts and screws are no
longer optically compatible with old bugs from
Vibroplex. And the "Finger and
Thum-Pieces" are now a quality of which one no longer
has to speak of quality but waste!
Injection-molded
paddles of the cheapest kind, with razor-sharp
moldings and threads clamping. Same with the buttons,
the screws are too long, not back-turned, inserted at
an angle and made of hard steel that is difficult to
recut.
As you can probably imagine, I have serious scruples about selling these parts to anyone, because they do not meet my requirements in any way.
But I paid them and I
have to get the money back somehow.
So be lenient because of
the lousy goodness, but you will get exactly these parts
if you order directly from the USA.
Fred, HB9JCP