As I mentioned in the previous post, I was somewhat hamstrung with purchasing the sling mount from Ace LTD. USA – apparently Coal Creek Armory used their folding stock for my Vera (though I had to figure that out on my own, since CCA still has not bothered to provide me with a listing of parts or manufacturers), only they make the hardware that threads into the convenient hole on the folding mechanism’s side, only they stock this particular part, and there really are not many other places on the gun where mounting a single-point sling would make a whole lot of sense.
Well, the part arrived, and the absolutely absurd $7 shipping charge suddenly makes sense:
Well there’s your problem, as the engineer once said.
If the picture is not immediately clear (apologies for the cell phone camera, but I was too lazy for anything else), that teeny zipper-seal bag is resting on an 8”x4”x4” box, which included the parts, a receipt, two stickers, and a crapload of wadded up paper. I can totally understand why it took $7 to ship all of that… given the method they chose to ship it with.
But, hey, at least they included stickers, right?! *headdesk*
And, of course, as these things go, I got the wrong sized part. Oh well. Sure as hell not worth returning at this point, and it will work as is, just not well…
WTF!?!
I won’t be shopping with them.
Looks about the same size box that CDW uses to mail out Microsoft licenses… which consist of a single sheet of paper… in a cardboard envelope.
…eye bolt of the appropriate diameter from hardware store + hacksaw + die to rethread if necessary?
@ MAJ Mike: My exact words. And I cannot say as though I blame you – I will not be shopping directly with them in the future either, and I may avoid using their products as best I can too.
@ Oddball: Wow. Some really stupid companies out there…
@ John Hardin: Bleh. By the time I buy all of those things, and a whole passel of bolts because I have never threaded a single thing in my life, we are probably close to what I already paid. I will probably just get a cut-off wheel for my Dremel and trim the threaded part of the gadget… if I figured I could do that without mutilating it
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@ Linoge:
If you’re going to Dremel it, run a nut down on it first, THEN cut it off w/Dremel. Chamfer the cut end with as small file, then unscrew the nut off the post. What this will do is make the nut perform as a die os sorts, and set any gimped-up threads properly. Old trick I learned in the Navy from a Boatswains Mate….
Yeah, but you’ve learned how to thread bolts…
@ Dragon: Hm, good call – I was wondering how I would keep the edges from fraying, so to speak.
@ John Hardin: This is true, but, unfortunately, that is not a skill I often have cause to call upon.