Hmmm... interesting. These are made by one manufacturer and anyone willing to buy a container of them can be a distributor. The people distributing them typically can't ask for manufacturing changes. Once the distributor gets them they can swap out things like hardware and wing tubes. I guess they could have them swapped before they ship from China but I doubt it... If he is having problems with the manufacturer that sounds bad for us the distributors customers. Things are done a bit differently in China manufacturing. A couple pages back I asked Gerry point blank not to promise if he can't deliver. This was after he said he shipped a new cowl then came back two weeks later after I said I never got it and said he had to order it... Since it flys I'd like it to look nice.