Expensive, yes... well, it is also one of the best enclosures, if not the
best, money can buy..especially for a "ham" radio. Impressive shielding,
styling and strength with no ugly "screws heads" showing. Very
professional. All this while allowing the owner, should be ever need to,
remove/replace any module inside. Try doing that with one of the big 3
manfuractuer's radios and I believe you will quickly appreciate the value of
the Flex enclousure and engineering design.
Mel
k0pfx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Matos" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Is the 5000 gone forever?
About 9 months ago i did some trading and got a flex 5000 it had a scratch
in the top cover and
being the nut i am for perfection, I call Flex and told them i wanted a
new top cover.
I think it was Mat i talked with (great guy by the way) he told me it was
$ 169.00 (if i remember correctly might be off 10 bux either way) i almost
had a hart attack
and said What!!. Just for the top cover!. He told me that cabinet parts
were very costly from the vender .
and he was very embarrassed to say that was the price.
so i ordered it and replaced the top cover .
but i can only imagine what they pay for the whole cabinet
"Rich"
On 5/20/2013 9:14 AM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Christopher D. Sanger <
[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry but the story about the ENCLOSURE availability is very hard to buy
......
It's not like it is a hand hammered aluminum shape crafted by artisans
.... personally I always felt that it resembled something from a high
school science fair project.
With almost 1/10 of this country out of work it shouldn't be that
difficult to find a metal shop willing to produce a suitable exoskeleton
for such fine components ....
Geez. It doesn't matter why Flex has discontinued the 5000. The bottom
line
is that they have discontinued the 5000. The case may have been the final
straw that precipitated the actual event but the truth of the matter is
that the 5000 was dead the day Flex announced the 6000 series. People are
going to buy the 3000 or the 6500. No one is going to buy the 5000 so it
makes no sense for Flex to keep producing it. Sure it might have lasted a
few more weeks/months while shipping of the 6500 is delayed but once the
6500 is shipping in volume, the 5000 really WOULD be dead-as-a-doornail.
And how many people are out of work has nothing to do with what Flex
should
do. Flex should make an obsolete radio that no one will buy because there
are people out of work? Really? Let's put those people to work building
cases for the 3000 and the 6500 instead. Oh they don't have the skills to
build the cases? Huh.
So, time to stop stressing over this kids. The 5000 is dead. It was a
good
transceiver. The new DDC transceivers are flat-out better. Way better. I
am
not going to mourn the 5000.
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