Hello Everyone. So i finally received my 3 piece SCS after a long delay in the mail (Thanks USPS!), and i was briefly inspecting it before i was going to do an iso clean and start using it. Right away i noticed several large marks in the bottom dish, 4 of them, where the paint seemed to be scratced away or something. After looking at it further, i noticed quite a few imperfections that i wanted to share with you guys to see what you thought. Personally i think im going to return for a new one, becuase i bought it directly from the scs website so i figured it would top notch.
http://imgur.com/a/kE0Hu http://imgur.com/a/kRsbf
So in these you could see 2 of the 4 marks in the bottom dish that i was talking about, one with flash on a flash off.
http://imgur.com/a/VmcaY
Here you can see some scratches on the bottom of the middle piece. Nothing major, but still didn't expect to see in a new piece from the scs website
http://imgur.com/a/D1CUh http://imgur.com/a/lKJja
From the top piece, another couple of those markings where the paint or whatever seemed to have been scratced away.
http://imgur.com/a/TgIQI http://imgur.com/a/fuXIW
Finally in these two you can not only see those markings i was talking about, but you can also see several areas there the color is already chipped away and you can see metallic, one of which being the top of a few of the teeeh, and as well as along the rim of the middle piece. Which also looking at the threading of the one of the earlier pictures you can see some fading of the color along the threading as well, which would make sense because i was just turning it with nothing in it to get a feel for it, and i noticed some blueish shavings (?) on my hand after i finished... Not 100% if it was from the grinder, but i don't know where else it would have come from since i had just cleaned my hands prior to trying it out.
Overall I can tell why these grinders are very popular around here, it is extremely well made and i would be an extremely satisfied customer if it didn't have these issues. I understand some may think i'm just nitpicking, but i'm hoping others here will also agree that i should probably send this one back for a new one. Thanks for your time!
I second the Kannastor GR8TR.
My Space Case Ti coating has held up for 4 years of daily use. It's only just starting to show some bare aluminium where I've contacted the teeth together upon assembly. Even so this is wear rather than chipping or flaking.I grabbed pic of the worst part (IMO at least) for you. Here it is:
Short answer on how to post pics - Post to imgur (or other site), pull up picture, right click and choose "copy image location", hit picture icon here while creating/editing, paste that link. Easy peasy! No worries. I get the frustration (we've all been there!) and glad to grab it for you. Just ask first if it gives you trouble. Plenty of great FCers will probably assist.
Have never had an SCS myself, but I would return this and get one of the plain aluminum ones, or maybe look at another grinder manufacturer. If that shit is flaking and going to flake more, it's going somewhere - probably right into what you're vaping! As if that wasn't bad enough, it looks horrible. It may be from poor production (not flaking, just never covered initially). Still looks like crap, and I would be worried that it would be more prone to flaking with incomplete finish.
I have a black "titanium" SC 2 piece as my daily grinder for a few years (3+/-). It has some marks on the finish after grinding probably 1,000+ loads, but almost all on the outside from me whacking it against itself while dumping. There are a few other very small chips I can find if looking hard after cleaning, but nothing like this - even after all that grinding of all kinds of material.
I have a silver one, and it never needs cleaning compared to the rasta. It may be anodized differently.
??? looks like the nickel coating flaked off the rare earth magnet. This is extremely common with these magnets and really shouldn't be an issue in use.My SWII came in today! Unfortunately, I saw this as I was opening it.
I'm glad I was in a good spot and taking unboxing pictures as I went.
Sent the picture and asked how to proceed and he had already printed out a label for a replacement and replied to me within 5minutes.
Obviously I haven't tried the important part - which is grinding, but it looks nice. Everything else looked pretty clean and smooth so I don't know whether this was a QC issue or it happened in transit. I really like the removable kief screen. Without it, I'm betting you could probably store close to 2g.
I'll update when I get the new one in. I was between this and the gr8r or whatever but this was much cheaper after the discount. I'm also not someone that will complain about turning the grinder upside down and grinding a bit more if it isn't initially fine enough... not that I think it'll matter since I really only use convection
I like that they leave a section of teeth missing so that you can load without forcing the bud through the bottom holes when you close it.
This is the exact one I have except that mine came with 2 grinder screens: a fine one and a medium one. I've tried several other grinders like santa cruz, cali, cosmic and this works the best for me.
Ive had it for over a year of heavy use. Many ounces, and miles of travel. I have no clue if my sweat is acidic or not.
I've met people who can rust guitar strings in 6 hours by playing it. Or another example would be eating through the paint on keyboard caps. Some people truely are acidic in nature and will have reactions to certain metals and surfaces.Seriously?? What the hell is wrong with you? How can you NOT know?? Who doesn't know???
sorry just couldn't resist!