OK, funny story at a good supplier's expense - but Wicks made good very quickly, so I'm happy with how it turned out.
I love ordering stuff on the Internet, and seeing the brown boxes arrive a day later - it is usually easy, simple, and foolproof. So when we needed a piece of 3/16" 2024-T4 Bar stock an inch and a half wide to make a wider rear spar carry through for the RV-3 (better edge distance), I checked all the usual sources. ACS, Van's, Airparts - Wicks had everyone beat on price per foot.
Never being one to pass up a good low price, I hit "oder", and when my "shopping basket" came up, I changed th quantity from the default "1" to a "3" (sold by the foot). Put in the credit card and woosh - the order was off. I figured that with the holiday, it might take a little longer to show up, so I was pleased when three days later, I came home to find a box on my chair - Louise had brought in the mail, and didn't know what I had ordered. I was both pleased and dismayed however, because the box was about ten inches square and a couple of inches high. I suspected what I was going to find, and sure enough, I was right - three perfectly cut One foot long pieces of 3/16" x 1 1/2 " 2024 T4Aluminum.....kind of hard to make a spar out of that, unless the fuselage is REALLY narrow....
Shopping on the Internet is "Like a Box of Chocolates" - you never know what you're going to get.....
Paul
(Wicks responded to my email despite the holiday, shippping a new piece out at their expense the next morning...)
I love ordering stuff on the Internet, and seeing the brown boxes arrive a day later - it is usually easy, simple, and foolproof. So when we needed a piece of 3/16" 2024-T4 Bar stock an inch and a half wide to make a wider rear spar carry through for the RV-3 (better edge distance), I checked all the usual sources. ACS, Van's, Airparts - Wicks had everyone beat on price per foot.
Never being one to pass up a good low price, I hit "oder", and when my "shopping basket" came up, I changed th quantity from the default "1" to a "3" (sold by the foot). Put in the credit card and woosh - the order was off. I figured that with the holiday, it might take a little longer to show up, so I was pleased when three days later, I came home to find a box on my chair - Louise had brought in the mail, and didn't know what I had ordered. I was both pleased and dismayed however, because the box was about ten inches square and a couple of inches high. I suspected what I was going to find, and sure enough, I was right - three perfectly cut One foot long pieces of 3/16" x 1 1/2 " 2024 T4Aluminum.....kind of hard to make a spar out of that, unless the fuselage is REALLY narrow....
Shopping on the Internet is "Like a Box of Chocolates" - you never know what you're going to get.....
Paul
(Wicks responded to my email despite the holiday, shippping a new piece out at their expense the next morning...)
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