[fusion_power]

Bosbeetle, on 03 November 2009 - 04:34 PM, said:

http://twitpic.com/photos/Craigix

photos of the moulds

Interesting, very interesting, I wanted to see this for a long time. :) It looks like they spread out the Case in a wide variety over different moulds. The Top pf the Lid looks like the Mould produces 2 identical parts instead ot top and lower Part of the Lid. D-Pad and Action Buttons are done alone in a (huge) Mould. The (Copper)Mould of the Case itself looks a little bit rough but it also could be just the underside of the Top-Part of the Case.

[Dead1nside]

Nice to see some pics despite the delay.

[relapse808]

I dont blame the team but I honestly now can say I am most likely not going to have a pandora in my hand in 2009. Sucks that we are going to have to wait even longer. I just hope this is the last issue(but I doubt it the way the project has gone.)

[calc84maniac]

relapse808, on 03 November 2009 - 01:02 PM, said:

I dont blame the team but I honestly now can say I am most likely not going to have a pandora in my hand in 2009. Sucks that we are going to have to wait even longer. I just hope this is the last issue(but I doubt it the way the project has gone.)

It's not that bad... they'll spend a few days fixing up those two moulds (which means they will probably be finished around the weekend or so) and MWeston will get the samples sometime next week.

This post has been edited by calc84maniac: 03 November 2009 - 05:45 PM

[Ralph]

MWeston, on 03 November 2009 - 10:06 AM, said:

Sorry everyone,

I had to pull the countdown timer. I dared to be brave and got bit in the ass once again. :( Craig suggested I was crazy but there didn't seem to be anything else that could be screwed up at this point and I even factored in a couple extra days.

There was one part coming out of the molds messed up and they were to fix it, make new parts and ship everything tonight. Now, two more molds need the extra treatment and will take a few more days. I'm hoping they ship new parts this weekend but no more count downs. Unbelievable.

Not your fault mate, its better to get it right and have delays than a sub-standard product rushed out

[Eight Bit]

So what's this treatment the moulds must undergo then?

Something to make the plastic not stick to it?

[craigix]

I can't really see why you would not get you Pandora this year unless your local postal service is quite poor.

The cases are the last step and it's only the start of November.

[gibberish]

craigix, on 03 November 2009 - 08:27 PM, said:

I can't really see why you would not get you Pandora this year unless your local postal service is quite poor.

The cases are the last step and it's only the start of November.

how far are the boards from completion then?

[craigix]

The boards are due for completion this month.

[Etinin]

So the cases are the bottleneck again.

[Yoyobuae]

That's good news. :) Let's hope cases are ready on time to catch up to board production.

[gibberish]

craigix, on 03 November 2009 - 08:29 PM, said:

The boards are due for completion this month.

nice.

[Tokiopop]

craigix, on 03 November 2009 - 08:27 PM, said:

I can't really see why you would not get you Pandora this year unless your local postal service is quite poor.

The cases are the last step and it's only the start of November.

That's great news! I know you're not promising anything, but it'd be great to be holding my Pandora before next year. Even better if it's before christmas.

[B-ZaR]

Etinin, on 03 November 2009 - 10:34 PM, said:

So the cases are the bottleneck again.

The cases are the last thing keeping the assembly lines idle (re: pandora), but AFAIK they are not a bottleneck in the sense of slowest part of the process.

[Na-Noo]

He didn't say cases are the bottleneck again.
It's the start of the month, boards are due this month i.e. before dec.
Sample cases hopefully a week away
So in the end either could be bottleneck, or neither as could get both(mp case say) around same time.