Good morning,
If you're receiving this email, at one time or another you asked to be notified when the above products was back in stock at Sidewinder Computers. You may have submitted more than one request, in which case you may receive the same email twice. Since many have asked where they are, I'm writing to give you a status update on these two parts.
As a sidenote, for those that havn't noticed, part # TFB1212UHE (234 CFM) was replacing TFB1212GHE (220 CFM)
First off, we placed our order for both fans back in October in addition to a restock and new inventory of many EFB, FFB and TFB parts you may have seen on our site in the last few weeks. Due to the extremely high cost of the GFB1212VHW, we only committed to a few boxes.
We were shipped the bulk of our order by Delta in early December. The TFB1212UHE and GFB1212VHW parts were not shipped. I sent an inquiry to Delta, and was told that the order for the GFB part was cancelled due to a minimum requirement of 192 pieces.
Thanks to those of you who have expressed interested in this part over the last few weeks, and to Joe at OCForums.com, we recommitted to Delta for their minimum quantity and asked the order be expedited. Two days later, Delta cancelled our order for both TFB1212UHE and GFB1212VHW due to a quality control issue. Delta did not elaborate on this, nor why they failed to notify us about the TFB model until 6 weeks later. But, this is the same reason that we were given when our order for GFB parts was cancelled in 2003.
Its not much, but this is the latest update I have at this point on these two Delta fans. I don't think our fight is over to bring these two in, we are working to aquire them from a different Delta factory. If we are unsuccessful and they can't make these fans, we will try to reaquire TFB1212GHE since we've obtained them in the past. It begs the question as to why they're still advertising these items in their product lines. One thing is for sure is our cost will more than likely go up as a result of the import/export costs to produce in another factory, but at this point Sidewinder is committed to obtaining them one way or another. The typical Delta leadtime for production is 4 to 6 weeks, at this point the earliest we may see them is late February.
As soon as we get some solid information available we'll be sure to pass it along to you all, without spamming your mailboxes. You may also visit this OCForums thread, as any new information may be posted here
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=429726&page=1&pp=30
