Ohhhhh the Gen 8 is here

[MickWrath]

Samyo, do you have any plans to incorporate a metal threaded insert for the vice of any gen series? I have no problems with the machine being plastic my problem lies with the worry I will have the same problem as twice before. Like I stated before I found your customer service excellent, but what's frustrating is I love the swash and cannot bring myself to buy another with the vice as is, sorry homie I just don't trust it. Please tell me the gen 8 has improved upon it somehow...Mick-

[Samyo]

Samyo, do you have any plans to incorporate a metal threaded insert for the vice of any gen series? I have no problems with the machine being plastic my problem lies with the worry I will have the same problem as twice before. Like I stated before I found your customer service excellent, but what's frustrating is I love the swash and cannot bring myself to buy another with the vice as is, sorry homie I just don't trust it. Please tell me the gen 8 has improved upon it somehow...Mick-

Thanks for the post Mick ... mate not at this stage, the issues of stripped & broken vices is actually quite rare for the number of machines out there, it was a little more common in the earlier machines, but Craig has since purchased more advanced injection molding equipment and refined the technique. From memory there was only one or two broken vices in the Whips and that was an early test batch of the purple ones. Since then I have not seen seen one.

Changing to a smaller nut on the tube vice also helped, some of the early Gen6's had a really big circular nut on them and it was easy to over tighten ... As I said in the earlier post, I think some folk were used to have to really crank up the tube vices but with the Swashdrive you don't have to, the combination of the different metals and the polymer holds the tube quite tight without a lot of pressure.

If you have a body that you have stripped out sent me a mail, I am happy to send you out a replacement ... hit me up at [email protected] ...