Good news: We now have 500 pristine-perfect GoDrillas in our warehouse, and we’re shipping them out as fast as you can order them.
Today ends our six-month saga with manufacturing difficulties with this tool. If you care about sob stories involving aluminum extrusions and custom lathe tooling, then this is the bedtime tale for you.
Earlier this year we received a batch of GoDrillas that would not accept a hex-shank drill bit. Things were just too tight. The manufacturer said they were in spec. We ate the cost of that run. We ordered a replacement batch. It was better, but still on the tight side. We could get hex-shank tooling in with a little effort. After a few go-rounds using these GoDrillas, things loosened up and the GoDrillas worked normally. Still, we were grumpy.
So we sold that batch at a deep discount.
Now we finally have GoDrillas that are perfect. We had to buy a $2,000 tool and add a step to the process to get here, but it was worth it. We all spent all day today packaging up GoDrillas and hex rods and instruction books, and they are ready to go.
If you have been waiting for these in-spec GoDrillas, the wait is over. You can order one here.
Thanks to Josh Cook, the mechanical designer for this tool, for figuring out the problem and getting a solution.
— Christopher Schwarz
The GoDrilla isn’t young any more. It’s perfectly natural that insertion will become a little more difficult.
I did a very dumb thing and bent the hex rod that came with my GoDrilla. This obviously makes the tool useless because the spin is no longer concentric. The local hardware stores and big box stores have been useless. Any suggestions where I can buy an arrow straight length of hex rod?
McMaster.com
Thank you, this was the ticket! Even bought a few extra lengths since the bar was cheaper than the shipping!
Congrats and hope this means you can reclaim the original bad run.
For the curious, would you mind telling us the fix? And for the envious, what new tool?