thank you!
Will be sending PMs this evening, so I can prepare the orders today and send them Monday.
So, I will be sending PMs to these members:
aswang: 10x small, 10x large and 4x SST-20 3000k.
oweban: 10 small + 10 large springs
KevinZa1988: 10x large springs + 10x small springs + 10x SST-20 3000k
trakcon: ? springs + 20x SST-20 3000k LEDs
JackJax: 30 small and 70 large springs
Captain_Joe: 20x SST-20 3000k
tm07: 20x large and 15x small springs
All PMs have been sent to the following above.
Can’t wait to get my package…
Boom! Hope it worked, can’t wait to get them going 
Got mine today!
Mine arrived last week to Aus. Thanks again for the orsm effort. 
Still waiting for mine. 
Me too
Received mine.
Thank you
@shirnaks and MikeMacD, I shipped tours last Wednesday, so should take about 1-2 weeks more before you guys receive.
@808Hi, seems you have the fastest US postal service.
thanks
The rest of the new orders will be shipped tomorrow.
I’m also in the plan of making a 3rd gen spring with one very nice differentiation.
Basically, we will be using multi-layer plating!
It will be a nickel-copper-nickel plating.
Just to make sure people aren’t worried, this isn’t an downgrade from the silver plating.
In fact, it’s an upgrade.
That is because the TOTAL layer thickness of the silver is around 17-20um as I wanted it to be. I could have gone thicker at 20um+ as initially specified or even higher as Pirx, but the cost per spring became a bit prohibitive. So that change was mostly done for lower contact resistance along with slightly higher conductivity.
However, with a nickel-copper-nickle plating, it can be changed quite easily.
With a total layer thickness of 50um(25um per side, which is easily doable since we can use the whole surface area of the spring wire), we could get a massive, relatively to the nickel and silver plating, performance boost.
It would be akin to adding 0,130mm of thickness to the existing 1,0mm BeCu wire, but without the thickness impacting full compression height.
We would be gaining a 27% gain in terms of conductivity.
I am also going back to the old design, with only a tweak to the top diameter to get more conical compression.
Otherwise, that would mean we would go from an approximate resistance of 9mOhms down to an impressive 7,1mOhms.
Other than that, I have some other good news, but I’ll be writing about it later on.
Thanks for the update!
I’m interested in the 3rd gen springs
Excellent.
On another note, I shipped the springs orders today, which included yours, but went after 5PM, so will be sent tomorrow.
I will also try to an experimental electroplating process to plate lights with different variations of metals.
If it actually works, then I have a nice opportunity for a copper plated Thorfire TK15, BLF Q8, FW3A, etc.
That would just be dope, especially since the copper/nickel/silver layers could be as large as 50um thick, which would make for a super durable coating.
I could also try chromium, but I don’t want La Sureté du Québec kicking on my door, and myself to die of cancer a few years later.
What about a batch with gold plating. Any idea the price?
The cost would be:
Oof
But, it would be a nice idea for a much more expensive spring.
Nickel-copper(50um)-Gold plating for the best setup possible.
According to Engineering Toolbox, both Copper and Silver have better conductivity than Gold. The only advantage Gold has is that it doesn’t tarnish or corrode.