Strooder, New Filament Extruder Project

[LambdaFF]

I can't believe it. Yesterday's update states :
- they have to force fit (hammer) some assemblies.
- the auger screws have to be re-lathed 1mm. How was the initial design tolerance set if you need to remove 1mm in a tube/rod assembly ??
- They have picked delays (again) because they noticed just now that each PCB is missing a couple mosfets. ... like "it's so small, we didn't notice". Really ?

... and that's the end for me of Kickstarter : they make it too easy for people with no engineering skills to present a couple of arranged photos and over-optimistic statements of "prototypes" that are "ready for manufacture".

[iDig3Dprinting]

This to me sounds like a bad choice of manufacturing partner but with some heavy lessons about the importance of oversight. This is obviously a painful lesson for them, and for you. The thing to cling to is that they are still trying to make a go of it and so it should not end the way of the Zano drone