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Does anyone recognise this Chinese moulded case - YORKTRON
peter-h:
The tool exists. I managed to get a photo of it, after some weeks which showed they are subcontracting it.
An off the shelf box is not an option; they tend to all look the same, and are very expensive.
Simon:
Years ago my past employer needed some duck bill valves that they had just run out of. No idea where they had come from. I got online, found a Chinese supplier and we ordered them having arranged the tooling. There was a bit of "but we own the tooling" but for the quantity price tooling included the piece price was not bad. I figured that even if we never bought any again the price was OK with the loss of the tooling. They never needed any more again, the time that has gone by if they can remember where they got them the tooling will be gone anyway.
If it's that important to you and you want to go to china then buy a damn lot and assume it's a one use only tool.
peter-h:
I've had some developments with this.
We threatened the moulding company, and the other company through which the tool was procured, with reporting them to the Chinese embassy in London, and to their local police station for theft of a tool.
The email was re-sent about 5x, once a week.
Of course nobody would expect Chinese police to do anything about a Chinese company stealing something from a customer in the West ;) but in this case "something" worked. They have agreed to us collecting the tool.
I am still trying to sort out the details (company name, etc). I have just an image in Chinese writing which I can't read but which I think is the company name.
They claim there is a severe covid lockdown there now and we must collect it immediately. Well, I need their name, address, etc, and they need to crate it, and generate a commercial invoice.
If they refuse to assist with the packing, are there any options in China whereby somebody there could drive there and pack it and get it shipped?
I managed to get the photo of the tool, below. Probably 30-50kg?
I want to ship it to the UK, because another Chinese company which we were going to give it to did a funny "misinterpretation" of the moulding and quoted a price for each case half instead of a whole case. Luckily I spotted this just in time. They also changed their currency from USD to GBP which is a 1.3x increase. The result is fully in line with a UK moulder around the corner from here!
Simon:
How big is the tool? work out it's volume and assume the specific weight of steel.
peter-h:
I was more wondering if anybody knows somebody out there who could go there, pack it, and make sure it gets shipped.
The address I have (left off the building number because I don't want somebody to phone the company and p1ss them off just for fun):
Xingye 1st Street, behind the bus station, Hengli Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong, China
They claim there is a severe covid epidemic there and the whole town may get closed off to the outside world.
I reckon 50kg.
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