Cool, @barajabali will you throw in some more info soon about this (the motors you can obtain)?
Im not entirely US buyer (instead EU) but I still like to see many options. My now most likely sources for motors is either hobbyking or ordering from china.
Plus, the motors I found from china… is quite unknown, they are called racerstar and they dont come in the big 6374 / 6364 sizes, max is 6355.
Hobbyking prices somewhat increased for all the motors it seems… so unless there is a special trick or sale / coupon to use (of which I am not aware now as of now)… then hobbyking is out of the list for me now
Plus, the wires are indeed quite stiff with sk3… and shafts are not always suitably long, for thicker mounts or pulleys.
Oh ok I get it now why u did not get the long shafts… they were intended but you just did not double check with them that they got it correct…
Anyways, Im really supporting the idea about you making a similar group buy… it look quite a long time to finalize for this one… which is just fine but might not always be suitable when the eboard building might get hasty…
Non the less, it seems @wmj259 has built the path now… so there’s not much bad I can tell… of course, the buyers still have to get their motors… but the all buy process went pretty structured I think
I just see from this now how lenghty this coordinaton / info collection process can be.
I have sent the payment in to their company via bank transfer. It will take 2-4 Business days for it to do its thing. Projected manufacture time is about 40days not including the Chinese New Year coming up, so its still is about 5 weeks. I will keep everyone posted as this goes along. Hopefully I can get them to send pics of what they get done before the Chinese New Year.
@Okami,
I agree about the lengthy process, I had this groupbuy started in Late November/EarlyDecember and school life got in the way. I have to tip my hat to these people that waited for this to happen. 7
@barajabali,
POST SOME PICS PLEASE!!! Can you tell me how they came packaged so I can figure out shipping and if you paid any taxes/fees on them. Let me know how they work out for you.
I have to order much more than I myself needed to help others get what they wanted. I’ll end up with like 6-8 extra motors that I don’t need. Hopefully, I can get my money back by selling them on the marketplace.
Alrighty guys, Shipping.
A.)
Shipping from them was $157. I took the stock weight for everyones motor configuration based on hobbyking’s website, and divided it by the total weight. That gave me a mulltiplier against the total cost
(Column N, is what you should pay).
(Column O) is the shipping rounded down to the nearest interval of $5.00.<<< Is everyone fine with this?
View here : SK3 GB Spreadsheet@DilatedPupils, please email me.
@Rob.Endless, please email me.
No updates as of today. PNC bank seems to be inconsistent in telling me a estimate for payment sent date. Paperwork says 9 days but the tellers keep saying 3-5 days…
Am in constant contact with manufacturer.
