Cuper aluminum tops! (part 2)

[Neff]

(moved from temporary location in Latest Spin)

Well, I got the Cupers today.  They were packed like this:



As you can imagine, there was some shifting during flight.  The worst one looks like this:



None of you will be receiving one that looks like that.  Some are relatively unscathed, most have a few small dings in them.  Those of you who ordered these as players should not care much, but some of you may have been purchasing these as collectors, I know Pulp was.  Pulp will receive the best lookin' ones since he had the largest pre-order, should he accept.  We could try to return the whole lot, but I'd rather be finished with this deal.  It's a $35 aluminum top.  If anybody feels jipped, please say so (PM me) and I will make it up to you.  If most of you are OK with a few dings in your new top, I'll start sending them out in short order.   

I have a gold glitter pen I could polka-dot... nevermind.

So, aside from that, these are neat tops.  They are a little smaller than an Imperial but they play BIG!  More on that later, gotta work...

[Dick Stohr]

Put mine in the mail.  And thanks for doing this.

[figs]

Damn that's a hell of a packing job, if you can call it that.  I'm glad to see that these poor abused orphans will be moving on to stable an loving homes.

[figs]

Damn that's a hell of a packing job, if you can call it that.  I'm glad to see that these poor abused orphans will be moving on to stable an loving homes.

Oh yeah and put mine in the mail and thank you for doing this.

[kevinm]

this should make everyone feel better.

http://vimeo.com/10357877

[MatiasStuntMan]

whooooohoooo!!! put mine on the mail, cant wait to play with it!!!!

[Jeromy K.]

Well that is one way of shipping them. Bummer it went that way. Just send what you will. Thanks again for you doing this.

[Neff]

Thanks for the support, y'all!

Allright, I've got them sorted.  Please take one last look at the spreadsheet and make sure I haven't mixed something up.

I'll be shipping most of them tomorrow.  For some of you, I have some extra work to do, you know who you are.  Actually, some of you don't know who you are  because I either have something to show off, a favor to return, or a clear aluminum Cuper to fix (one cap is frozen, two tips won't go in... yet).

I'm too tired to look up the solution right now, but these threaded caps will have the same problems of freezing shut that the QS with metal cap did.  So BE CAREFUL.

Each top comes with a mexican-style  button and ring, two cotton strings, one rainbow polyester string, and one extra tip, all compliments of Marco.  The button and ring look like glow-in-the-dark plastic, but it is not.  The tips respond to a magnet, so I assume they are made of steel, not aluminum.  Most of the tops I am sending out are well-balanced, a few might need some small blobs of putty.

[Dizzy]

Chris-

You're scaring the newbie here.  What kind of damage might cause these tops to freeze shut?  You say be careful.  OK, how careful?  As a beginner, my fixed-tip skills are seriously lacking.  In your opinion, would it be better for me to just gaze longingly at this top on the shelf for awhile until I get better with my play?  I didn't buy this top as a collector, and I expect it to get dings.  But if it freezes shut that will make me kinda sad. 

Any thoughts?

[kevinm]

if you are not going to be opening and closing it much, use a lube or anti-seize on the threads like you might use on a spark plug in a car.
just read the precautions of whatever you use.

[Jeromy K.]

You can use Vaseline on the threads it will prevent the cap from freezing. The truth is you don't really need to remove the cap on a fixed tip top, unless their is a real problem.

[Pulpowsky]

Chris, don't get me wrong. I am not a "hard" collector. But I like my tops looks well. I should prefer you send the best ones to the collectors. Afortunately I know good anodicers factory in my surroundings and can decolour and reanodiced with the colours I want. The item is more important to me than the colour.

[poptop]

use anti-seize on the threads like you might use on a spark plug in a car.

I put a tiny bit of this stuff on my QS when I first got it and it has never given a lick of trouble!  You get it at the auto parts store; it of great use for protecting the threads on your all your nutty and bolty stuff...  Withstands heat too! (In case the spin top action really gets hot!)

Looking forward to playing these new tops.

[John Buechele]

I too appreciate your hard work on this order. I'm not concerned at all with condition as I will probably scratch and dings these up a lot.

[Neff]

Ok, check out the spreadsheet to see who's shipped.  If you folks don't see yours by Wednesday, let me know and I'll fetch you the tracking number (I didn't copy over all the e-mail addresses from paypal to USPS for automatic notification).

I hope to ship everybody else's Monday.