Comfortable Holidays Everybody,
Nice information, we’re lastly getting right into a groove! Each of our full time hires began final week and we have been in a position to get 21 machines out the door! Some find yourself delivery slightly out of order in the event that they get caught in QC however we’re as much as 91 whole machines shipped which equates to order 00164. We’re presently on observe for 25 this week with a number of folks out for the vacations and subsequent week we needs to be as much as 30.
Staffing:
All of our new hires have began and are selecting issues up fairly rapidly. Onboarding is a troublesome course of when there’s nonetheless a lot to determine and optimize however we’re excited to have everybody taking possession of their respective areas.
{Hardware} Updates:
All new builds have been receiving the brand new type of LED. We are going to proceed doing our inside flicker testing on the following 50 machines to make sure there aren’t any points with these earlier than sending out.
Now that now we have a full time packaging and order success particular person, Kayli will be capable to begin sending out pre-flicker examined LEDs of the unique type to any present prospects who’ve run into points. We’ve additionally acquired some individuals who ordered extra piston assemblies but didn’t obtain a second set of piston splash guards, and cone washers. We now have not forgotten about you and can get these all out within the mail subsequent week.
Throughout testing of the brand new restrictor valve components, we discovered that one of many components was made to an previous drawing that was not supposed for use. We had these remade and despatched out to us final week. These components simply arrived immediately. So long as every part works as anticipated, we’ll begin incorporating these in all of our builds and ship the components out to current prospects to put in. We’ll have a YouTube video that goes over the set up course of.
As a reminder, this restrictor valve is to enhance the workflow of the Argos by eradicating the necessity to have the lever exactly positioned with a view to air bleed the grouphead to get the utmost yield. Please try the next video of a direct lever configuration shot pull the place Ross goes over the air bleed course of.We’ll work on getting an up to date video particularly on the present bleeding course of out this week.
YouTube – Odyssey Argos Direct Lever Pull
Additionally listed below are a few of the movies we’ve shot on the Argos and we’ll proceed to develop this content material to make sure everybody will get the most effective expertise out of the machine!
YouTube – Odyssey Argos | Pulling a Spring Lever Espresso Shot
YouTube – Putting in the Stress Gauge or Transducer in your Odyssey Argos
YouTube – Odyssey Espresso Argos Unboxing and Set Up
Future Planning:
Sadly, any early batch 2 pre-orders have been estimated to ship out 6 months after ordering. Because it took us so lengthy to rent appropriately and work out our store operations, Batch 2 is delayed barely to begin delivery on the finish of Q1.
We’re presently working with suppliers on getting batch 2 components ordered by the beginning of the brand new 12 months. Typical lead instances for us are 30-60 days + 30 days delivery by sea. With Chinese language New 12 months taking over most of February, the objective is for components to get on a ship by mid March and arrive in mid April. We’ve acquired additional stock in Batch 1 which can carry us over till Batch 2 components are obtained to permit a clean transition in constructing and delivery with minimal to no delays.
Over the following few weeks we’ll have a greater thought of our new constant construct and ship charge as soon as all hires are in control which we’ll proceed to optimize and enhance the place we will.
Founder Ross with Serial no 00076. [/caption]
Engaged on store group to permit us to raised shield and stack components for optimized shelf house.
Suggestions:
We’ll work on getting some extra formal buyer evaluations up on our website. The overall consensus is that dialing in for the primary time could be troublesome whereas additionally learnign the nuances of the machine. The most important factor that prospects wrestle with is the air bleeding which needs to be a null problem quickly.
Whereas we can’t assure that everybody will love utilizing the machine, most prospects have expressed optimistic suggestions on the style and tactile workflow being extra pleasurable than an automated machine.
