Hello all! A lot of busy days and late nights the past few weeks testing and working with suppliers.
Please lock in your color options and add-ons as soon as possible to avoid more delays! Do not wait until the last minute, decide now. William is working on compiling everyone’s orders and sending out a confirmation email. When you receive the email (give us time to get it all together) please only reply is there is an issue. Getting almost 600 emails back from everyone will slow us down significantly. If everything looks good then please do not reply.
I received a first pass back on the user manual with graphics which looks great. A few more iterations on that and it should be set for printing.
Hardware
We finally got the Molex auto crimper tuned and operational. Shop techs have started crimping wires this week and are knocking them out like it’s nothing!
Of course more shipment receiving issues but and initial batch of spouted portafilters and more bottomless portafilter just arrived at the shop yesterday.
We didn’t love some small hardware samples that we received previously so we’ve been ordering a few more samples of everything to get the exact fit and finish that we expect. Several more production batches of hardware have been ordered for the samples that have passed our inspection.
Last week we had our electronics designer out on site in Denver to dial in low fluid level sensing as well as ensuring boards are production ready. We tested on hard city water all the way up to pure distilled water to ensure functionality.
We’ve been working hard on getting our inventory tracking software set up with everything that we’ve currently got in the shop as well as parts still on the way. We should be able to use this software to keep track of QA throughout the build.
Testing the low fluid level sensor with various water qualities.
Crimping Thermocouple Wires.
Production Spouted Portafilters.
Software
Minor software updates for fluid level sensing and shot temp improvements.
Sincerely,
Ross Ainsworth