Low-cost copper pills, spacers, optics, drop-ins (Updated 23/10/2022))

Why there is no tracking information from Canada post.
Most major countries have a postal agreement amongst themselves. Canada, USA, Britain, France, etc.
An example: USA 350 million people. Canada 35 million people. Obviously there is going to be more mail coming to Canada from the USA than there is from Canada to the USA. This is all kept track of and Canada is compensated by USPS for delivering their mail. USA mail is treated with the same priority and tracking as domestic mail.

Canada and the USA (and other European countries) made an agreement to deliver Chinpost mail some time ago to help them out as an emerging third world economy. Basically, we deliver their mail for free, which is why you get all the free shipping.
China is no longer an emerging economy, and Canada post is inundated by the output of a billion people shipping their goods and having to deliver it all for zero money. We receive no compensation from China and it costs us millions to deliver their mail. To compensate for China’s free mail, we will have to increase the price Canadians pay for their domestic postage.
Canada post decided to put a low priority on China mail and stopped all scanning of it. It is also considered low priority mail and is only sorted when we have time after we deal with domestic and foreign countries we have compensatory agreements with.

Since the Cold War, there isn’t a huge volume of mail from Russia yet, and I don’t believe there is a postal agreement between the two countries. I’ve found the mail from Russia is fairly quick, about two weeks, but CPC doesn’t bother scanning any of it.

Basically, Russia (and China) collect 100% of the money for postage and the other country is expected to eat the expense of delivering it for free.

The amount of Russian mail is fairly minor, but the cost and manpower to deliver mail from Asia is enormous.
Pretty soon you’re going to see countries all over the world not scanning and treating Asian mail as a low priority until Asia starts paying its share.

Russian post dont have special lines or some other tyles of low cost shippings. Yes we pay full cost, so it is not comparable with chinese parcels.
Small parcel air mail with tracking is international method and it works worldwide. There is no difference where did the parcel came from, it has all required marks and should be added to national post system with same (RB…RU) tracking number. If you find you parcel in mail box it means that canadian post recognized it as simple packet (same to chinese) and it went other ways trough country.

Yes, it is international mail, and Russia post collects money from you to send it. The problem is, Russia post does not share the money they collect from you with the country that delivers it. I don’t really see this as huge since Russia mail is minimal, but it is a massive loss with China mail.
I will check to see if Russia does have a postal agreement, and if they do, someone is screwing up badly.
At first I thought it might be getting mixed up with China mail, but that arrives across the Pacific Ocean on the other side of the country. I assume Russia post comes across the Atlantic. Besides not getting scanned, Russia post seems to arrive fairly quickly. I also don’t know if it comes direct, or is routed through another European country.

Ouch, once again, things you are talking about can describe situation with regular parcels (boxes). There is no way to devide money by different countries for small parcels cause price is fix and I sent same weight to Ukraine and to New Zeland for same price. There are international agreements and all other counries accept my parcels with right way.
If you think that Canadian and Russian post servises have no agreement you are not right. I can sent 100 empty parcels to you adress and write a letter that they are lost and canadian post will pay money to russian post which will pay me for losen parcels. And this payments will be in SDR value. Hope canadian post wont become bankupt :money_mouth_face:

It could be someone is screwing up the system.
I don’t think the current president of canadampost is going to last much longer under the new government. He was going to end all door to door delivery under the old government, and the new government told him to stop. The asked him to resign, but he refused. I think they’ll have to pay him a bunch of money to leave.

No info I can reminder about tracking parcel from you. What I reminder is that I received my goods a lot faster from you then from China. It takes 4 to 6 weeks to received my goods from China and few weeks from Russia.
I will check the tracking next time you send me something.

Robert

Hi, I’d like to buy 4 Al X6 8.6mm triple spacers. Thanks!

Today I got a couple of spacers and optics.
They were ordered 4 th of August.
All high quality and well packaged.
Thank you very much and would recommend to others.

Ordered two spacers for the S2+ triple builds on August 1st and received them today.

Well made, nicely packaged, fast shipping. What more could you ask for?

Thank you,

Bob

Received my package today! All was perfect. Thank you!

great prices here, though I’m getting a bit tired of doing small triples.

Any idea on ETA for the copper X6 Triple spacers?

Do we know if these also fit the X6R?

2 weeks or little earlier.
Lower diameter is 20.9, OD is 31.0

Any chance on a P60 for a surefire 6P?

21.9 size dropins will be produced soon.
I had really bad communication with members last time, most users have shown that they are too lazy and can not spent few minutes and measure their hosts. So no more precision drop-ins, all next will have one size and will be sent with lots of copper foil.

ZY-T08 Pills? What is the price for the copper one?

That’s unfortunate, I guess overall it would be better. One made especially for a 6P might not work say I bought another p60 host down the line. So. Overall better? Look forward to when they are back in stock.

Interesting. Fasttech states this light takes cells up to 67 mm length. I am looking for quality 26650 hosts which can take 2 x 26350 cells (about 70 mm together). Is there a way to squeeze them into this host?

I think that any host can fit 2x26350 cells with custom shortened pill.
Upd. Distance from tube top to compressed spring is similar to HD-2010, but construction is little difference with second internal threads for pill (HD-2010 pill is screwing to the same threads with tube). To use 2x26350 cells inside HD-2010 you need low height pill with small driver cavity while this one allows more space even with stock pill.

Thanks!