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Drop ALT High-Profile Off-White Aluminum Case

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McThockington

Sep 15, 2020

Verified Buyer

Beautiful color, issues with tolerance.

These star ratings are misleading because it lacks so much context but here goes...The case is as expected, very much the product they advertised; a very cool, retro off-white colored High Profile ALT case. The powder coating is very clean and well worth the asking price, but as the first reviewer has stated, because of the added thickness from the extra coating (which the original plate clearly wasn't designed for), the plate mount tolerances for the switches widely vary from being snug to worryingly tight. The stabs needed some serious manhandling because they just refused to mount if you have the PCB installed. Mine wasn't bad enough that it's unusable but if I ever have to tinker with any of the stabs in the future, I would have to disassemble the whole board because it's pretty much jammed in there with brute force and there is no way to take it off the usual way by just pressing the clips in at the top. So, what good is a review for a limited run item going to do, you might ask? I just hope this can reiterate a point to the community; I've purchased over $1300 worth of stuff of Drop in the last couple of months and it's painfully obvious that they need to pour more energy into QA. They may have been around for 8 or so years but their manufacturing level reminds me of a ragtag startup that's just started experimenting with mass production; a level or two above an enthusiast making shit in this garage. Just temper your expectations. Their website makes it look like a luxury brand but don't go into buying stuff from DROP expecting perfectly crafted tools on par with something like Snap-on or Makita, Zwilling J.A. Henckels or Wusthof, Apple or Samsung because even if they give off that appearance, they just aren't on that level, at least not yet.

Recommends this product? Yes

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