- Joined
- Nov 12, 2002
- Location
- Rootstown, OH
I didn't pick my title, the mods did, but I'm sticking with that theme and I'm excited to try out the new cooler. Been selling quite a bit of stuff in the classifieds to finance new toys, so now I'm ready to play.
I have some pics and initial impressions...
It's a shame this thing will be buried under insulation and frost, it is pretty. It's external finish is nicer in person than I expected from any pics I've seen.
The internal finish isn't so nice. Machining is fine, but there's a small amount of corrosion/tarnish going on in there making it look slightly diseased. Hardly anything, and likely easily fixed, but not bad enough to inspire me to do anything about it before trying it out. The base is also thick from top to bottom, the top of the internal holes is about a centimeter higher than the base of the F1 Gemini. I am eyeballing it here, and have terrible estimates of size/proportion - let me be the first to say these are horribly inaccurate inferences from just looking at the thing.
No reason to worry about bent mounting rods - 2 out of 4 came pre-bent, so no need to worry about screwing them up really! Not a big deal, but the package cost ~$350 for parts and shipping from Taiwan - at the price, I WILL nitpick. I would guess the rods shipped in good condition, but from the packaging pics you can see things were bouncing around in there and I don't know what the pot specs are - but for those who haven't handled one before, these things are surprisingly heavy. I would say its weight is comparable to a kids bowling ball - maybe not as I don't know what those weigh either, but thats what it brings to my mind. It is heavy.
It was dropped off for shipping on Monday, I received it today, Friday. If it had been mounted as a warhead on an ICBM in Taiwan and launched in my direction, it may have gotten here sooner but not by much. Packaging gets a C-, everything arrived fine other than those rods, but if everything were somehow secured rather than left bouncing around within an oversized box I would grade the packaging higher. Opposed to my inaccurate estimates on size and weight, a C- is absolutely exactly the accurate grade for this packaging - I may not be great at size and weight, but I have gotten my fair share of C-'s in my day, and I know one when I see one.
This is everything that came with it. The aluminum extension is an addon, which costs extra. Everything else comes standard with the container. Except the Roomba, that was sold separately.
And here it is with the extension dropped on top, for an idea of how tall it is. The extension disrupts the dapper look, however in use its all frosted over and under insulation so you'll likely never see a pic of any of this again when it isn't hidden under a quarter inch of ice.
I have some pics and initial impressions...
It's a shame this thing will be buried under insulation and frost, it is pretty. It's external finish is nicer in person than I expected from any pics I've seen.
The internal finish isn't so nice. Machining is fine, but there's a small amount of corrosion/tarnish going on in there making it look slightly diseased. Hardly anything, and likely easily fixed, but not bad enough to inspire me to do anything about it before trying it out. The base is also thick from top to bottom, the top of the internal holes is about a centimeter higher than the base of the F1 Gemini. I am eyeballing it here, and have terrible estimates of size/proportion - let me be the first to say these are horribly inaccurate inferences from just looking at the thing.
No reason to worry about bent mounting rods - 2 out of 4 came pre-bent, so no need to worry about screwing them up really! Not a big deal, but the package cost ~$350 for parts and shipping from Taiwan - at the price, I WILL nitpick. I would guess the rods shipped in good condition, but from the packaging pics you can see things were bouncing around in there and I don't know what the pot specs are - but for those who haven't handled one before, these things are surprisingly heavy. I would say its weight is comparable to a kids bowling ball - maybe not as I don't know what those weigh either, but thats what it brings to my mind. It is heavy.
It was dropped off for shipping on Monday, I received it today, Friday. If it had been mounted as a warhead on an ICBM in Taiwan and launched in my direction, it may have gotten here sooner but not by much. Packaging gets a C-, everything arrived fine other than those rods, but if everything were somehow secured rather than left bouncing around within an oversized box I would grade the packaging higher. Opposed to my inaccurate estimates on size and weight, a C- is absolutely exactly the accurate grade for this packaging - I may not be great at size and weight, but I have gotten my fair share of C-'s in my day, and I know one when I see one.
This is everything that came with it. The aluminum extension is an addon, which costs extra. Everything else comes standard with the container. Except the Roomba, that was sold separately.
And here it is with the extension dropped on top, for an idea of how tall it is. The extension disrupts the dapper look, however in use its all frosted over and under insulation so you'll likely never see a pic of any of this again when it isn't hidden under a quarter inch of ice.
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