Completely satisfied 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 capable of get 21 machines out the door! Some find yourself transport a little bit out of order in the event that they get caught in QC however we’re as much as 91 complete machines shipped which equates to order 00164. We’re presently on monitor for 25 this week with a number of folks out for the vacations and subsequent week we ought to be as much as 30.
Staffing:
All of our new hires have began and are choosing issues up fairly shortly. 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 subsequent 50 machines to make sure there are not any points with these earlier than sending out.
Now that we have now a full time packaging and order success individual, Kayli will be capable of begin sending out pre-flicker examined LEDs of the unique type to any present prospects who’ve run into points. We’ve additionally bought some individuals who ordered further piston assemblies but didn’t obtain a second set of piston splash guards, and cone washers. Now we have not forgotten about you and can get these all out within the mail subsequent week.
Throughout testing of the brand new restrictor valve elements, we discovered that one of many elements was made to an outdated drawing that was not supposed for use. We had these remade and despatched out to us final week. These elements simply arrived in the present day. So long as the whole lot works as anticipated, we’ll begin incorporating these in all of our builds and ship the elements 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 as a way 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 among the movies we’ve shot on the Argos and we’ll proceed to develop this content material to make sure everybody will get the very best 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 determine our store operations, Batch 2 is delayed barely to begin transport on the finish of Q1.
We’re presently working with suppliers on getting batch 2 elements ordered by the beginning of the brand new yr. Typical lead occasions for us are 30-60 days + 30 days transport by sea. With Chinese language New Yr taking over most of February, the aim is for elements to get on a ship by mid March and arrive in mid April. We’ve bought additional stock in Batch 1 which is able to carry us over till Batch 2 elements are acquired to permit a clean transition in constructing and transport with minimal to no delays.
Over the subsequent few weeks we’ll have a greater thought of our new constant construct and ship charge as soon as all hires are on top of things which we’ll proceed to optimize and enhance the place we are able to.
