ah the ol' munitions question. I put "R&D" and had a follow up email asking what specifically. "R&D for a personal fitness and training evaluation system" Well, I couldn't exactly say "$25 of fun for a geek" could I? On Tue 10/04/12 10:04 AM , RussellMc apptechnz@gmail.com sent: > > what a cool piece of kit, I'm looking forward to > having a play tonight! > As of today mine is still in the US. >=20 > Digikey did their usual song and dance re asking about intended end > use.As it's a super-dangerous ITAR munition that must not fall into the > wrong hands they needed my assurance that I was only to use it for > light-side applications. I may have to leave it at home next time I > travel to China. >=20 > My initial description of application said I wanted it to evaluate the > various capabilities of the product, but apparently that wasn't good > enough. So UI sent them a nice list of creative possibilities, all of > which would be nice to get to sooner or later. Fitting my answer in > their ITAR reason box may prove problematic. >=20 > To make up for the delay the nice folk at Farnement14 this morning > delivered 17kg of freight-free p order - including 4 x steel shell 44 > drawer parts-cabinets all the way from the UK. At least, they > certainly BETTER be freight free - that's what the offer said. Very > nice they are too - 44? drawers, steel case. Nicely made. Soon to have > plastic drawers lightly sprayed with Nickel spray to notionally ESD > protect them - yet to investigate whether plastic used is ESD-OK as is > but no reason to think so. >=20 >=20 > Russell > --=20 > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archiveView/change your membersh= ip options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >=20 >=20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .