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TOPIC: 12w Red Champ Phoenix
Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15024
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The retention knob won't stay threaded in place when I have the blade or blade plug installed. I moved it there just to still keep it on the saber. And I put the actual blade retention screw in its place so that I can still installed a blade or the plug for the time being.
Ah, sorry, misunderstood. Sometimes me no read so good. That and I'm operating on less than four hours of sleep right now.... Yaaay pregnant people and their sleeping habits.
Not so quick of a turnaround when it becomes half the time of the original build.
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Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15026
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Yeah, that shipping time can be absolutely killer.
Sorry man. Maybe (I'm not for sure on this, so don't quote me) they have a method they can just walk you through to correct the issue, so you don't have to send it back in. Hopefully something like that will be the case.  Always try to stay optimistic, I say. Until it gets annoying. Then go away. 
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Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15029
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Oh for sure.
They were actually really quick to reply and we're having a dialogue to see if it's something I can fix remotely without having to send it back to add time and cost (which they said they'd reimburse). I'm usually optimistic, words on a screen carry no tone so it's difficult to tell if I'm angry or not. But I'm truly not angry. Slightly disappointed more than anything, but understanding none-the-less. My posts were just to be concise and to the point but without using emoticons I guess you can't really tell my mood. I still love the saber and the feel of it though. Luckily I had plans on doing my own modifications to the hilt, so maybe this won't be as large of a deal as it may seem right now. Just need some time to let my creativity and imagination do it's thing. After I give it some fuel of course. So time to cook myself some supper, then get cooked myself afterwards, if ya know what I mean. Hah 
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Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15031
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I checked with Etsy about mine on this issue, as I swore I've seen another post have some concern about the knob and the blade retention. I was going to see about switching to Exalted which was the original saber I ordered from the main site before switching to Etsy for faster lead time, but the Exalted wasn't on Etsy at the time.
Bright side, they confirmed mine will ship tomorrow. So I'll have some pic's of the Phoenix ala Indigo posted very soon. Hopefully the crew isn't a problem on my order as well. ~ TD |
Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15032
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Not even close to full charge.
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Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15033
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After I installed sound on my empty Phoenix, I just went ahead and used gorilla glue to mount the shroud permanently to the body. Now I have a different brass greeblie knob decorating the spot where my black shroud retention knob used to go.
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"Always a pleasure to meet a Jedi…"
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Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15034
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Removed knob all together.
perhaps keep this as a window and then drill/tap a new section and install my own screw for shroud retention? |
Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15037
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DarthMario95 wrote:
After I installed sound on my empty Phoenix, I just went ahead and used gorilla glue to mount the shroud permanently to the body. Now I have a different brass greeblie knob decorating the spot where my black shroud retention knob used to go.
I was actually considering the adhesive and new greeblie method as well. |
Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15038
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Did you end up chroming your shroud and pommel like you said you were thinking?
I think theres a good chance my shroud will slide over the av switch. But the killkey port protrudes too far. How would I go about popping it out so that I can remove my shroud and put a different finish on it. |
Excitement leads to Disappointment; from Jedi to Sith 1 month 3 weeks ago #15042
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Mine was one of the ones that had the retention knob issue, I posted it in my Phoenix thread. I sent it in last week and they should have gotten it yesterday or today. We will see what they say about it.
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