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Offline DarkPrince

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« Reply #450 on: November 15, 2013, 05:33:06 pm »
Got mine today (11/15/2013 or 15/11/2013). Ohio, USA. I guess it is safe to say the flood gates have opened. Once again, through New Zealand DL. Thanks Dave! First impression took me by surprise how small they are. Perfect!
 

Offline Mrdjdean

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« Reply #451 on: November 15, 2013, 09:06:50 pm »
Received mine in the UK yesterday, cheers Pal, lovely bit of work
 

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« Reply #452 on: November 15, 2013, 09:07:08 pm »
US/NC arrived.
 

Offline van-c

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« Reply #453 on: November 15, 2013, 10:25:41 pm »
Received mine today, in Florida, USA.  The rulers are things of beauty, especially with the delicate gold traces.  Congratulations, Dave, for a job well done-- and for your great persistence.
 

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« Reply #454 on: November 16, 2013, 04:29:38 am »
Received my rulers in fine shape. They're very nice, thanks (Pennsylvania, USA).
 

Offline Kempy

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« Reply #455 on: November 16, 2013, 10:48:46 pm »
Got mine in New Hampshire on November 14 2013 in good shape.
Do most of the rullers have a slight curl to them?

Mine do.  They may have been rolled by some piece of postal equipment, or maybe there is just a natural curvature to the pcb material.

My rulers also have a slight curvature - all five of them.

The conclusion must be that it is natural curvature of the pcb material, otherwise you would have three curving one way, and the other two (on the other side of the card insert) curving the other way.

 

Offline Stonent

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #456 on: November 17, 2013, 04:55:25 am »
Still nothing in Texas.  :(
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Offline Legit-Design

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #457 on: November 17, 2013, 06:36:42 am »
Got mine in New Hampshire on November 14 2013 in good shape.
Do most of the rullers have a slight curl to them?

Mine do.  They may have been rolled by some piece of postal equipment, or maybe there is just a natural curvature to the pcb material.

My rulers also have a slight curvature - all five of them.

The conclusion must be that it is natural curvature of the pcb material, otherwise you would have three curving one way, and the other two (on the other side of the card insert) curving the other way.

That is most likely caused by the dreaded automated sorting machine. If you bend FR-4 too far it will retain it's new shape. Bending opposite direction will usually fix that.
 

Offline katsarov

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #458 on: November 18, 2013, 07:32:03 am »
Just received mine. It's 18-th of November. It came form Singapore.

Greetings from Bulgaria.
 

Offline daddario

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« Reply #459 on: November 18, 2013, 08:38:02 am »
Yep, just received mine and they also came via Singapore. Because... you know... Sweden is really far away.
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Offline katsarov

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« Reply #460 on: November 18, 2013, 09:18:45 am »
Yep, just received mine and they also came via Singapore. Because... you know... Sweden is really far away.

Yes, strange thing. But the most interesting is they even changed the return address with a sticker over the original one.
 

Offline adnc

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #461 on: November 18, 2013, 12:52:03 pm »
Is it still possible to get one of the rulers? Maybe someone in Germany has more than he needs?

Unfortunately I missed the hole.
 

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« Reply #462 on: November 18, 2013, 02:57:02 pm »
Woohoo! Finally they're here. :)
 

Offline ealex

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #463 on: November 18, 2013, 03:12:27 pm »
finally got mine, and in one piece.
they look great, thanks Dave
 

Offline carpelux

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #464 on: November 18, 2013, 03:23:40 pm »
yes, received mine too today. In sweden, shipped from sweden.
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Offline SeanB

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #465 on: November 18, 2013, 06:14:46 pm »
Got mine today, they went all the way around the planet to get to me. Swedish post with a return address for the Swedish mailer on the stamp and the EEVblog return printed on the envelope.

Funny thing is Tyvek is very strong, but the glue used to close the envelope is actually stronger than the Tyvek, which delaminated in trying to open it.
 

Offline yann

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« Reply #466 on: November 18, 2013, 07:28:41 pm »
Mine also arrived today (in Sweden), marked as priority mail from Malmö (like the others). Slightly faded print on the envelope showed my address and the EEVBlog-uRuler Australian address (which lacked country!), and a sticker had the Malmö return address and postage paid for swedish post, but international mail.
« Last Edit: November 18, 2013, 07:45:57 pm by yann »
 

Offline sedorox

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #467 on: November 18, 2013, 10:06:40 pm »
Pennsylvania, USA checking in. It either arrived today or Saturday (didn't check my mail on Saturday). Mine went through NZ. (Picture attached, I think).
Quick edit: there is a orange bar-code style print on the back. I usually see them on the front, and I think it was mentioned this was missing.
« Last Edit: November 18, 2013, 10:11:37 pm by sedorox »
 

Offline EEVblog

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #468 on: November 18, 2013, 10:38:43 pm »
Direct Link are claiming that these rulers didn't all go via NZ or Sweden, they only had that because they had to have something.
Still no explanation why it took 3 weeks to get anywhere, and why there are still dozens of countries without any delivered at all.
They said they should have all been delivered yesterday  :-DD
 

Offline LloydAZ

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #469 on: November 19, 2013, 01:26:28 am »
I got mine here ins Arizona on November 13th.
 

Offline A1waras

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #470 on: November 19, 2013, 09:53:50 am »
Hi! Lithuania, Kaunas checking in. uRulers are in my hands :) The delivery was done by Singapore as I understand :D
 

Offline Legit-Design

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #471 on: November 19, 2013, 10:16:08 am »
Just went to check the mail and this was waiting for me.

(FIN)
 

Offline konstantin

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #472 on: November 19, 2013, 10:40:53 am »
Greeting from Bulgaria! Got mine all intact via Singapore-mail.
 

Offline project2501x

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #473 on: November 19, 2013, 10:44:17 am »
I finally got my two rulers yesterday! (Sweden)
 

Offline Legit-Design

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Re: uRuler
« Reply #474 on: November 19, 2013, 10:52:24 am »
Just went to check the mail and this was waiting for me.

(FIN)

I went in for a closer look
Bigger picture

The middle one (third from bottom and top), IS FAULTY  :-BROKE.
Silkscreen on 2.0mm to 1.4mm is faded. Also text "EEVBLOG.COM    µRuler" text has jagged edges for the same reason. When I look really close with good light, I can see it looks like rasterized, with not enough ink. Maybe their machine ran low/out on white ink/silkscreening?

I don't actually care about this miniscule fault on mine, it just makes them unique. No need for replacements, just thought it would be good thing to report about this.

Also figured out why the rulers might be curved, only one side has red soldermask, Dave shipped these rulers so fast they didn't have time to dry out while kept straight. Now we have slightly curved rulers.  ^-^ 
Thin "painted" things tend to curve to the side when paint dries. That's why if thin wood needs to be kept straight (diy projector screen), it needs to be painted both sides at same time before either one dries.
« Last Edit: November 19, 2013, 10:59:45 am by Legit-Design »
 


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