Don that is why this winter I will drop off Bessies jugs and heads in person. It is 500 miles away but I don't want to take the chance of them being damaged in transit.
No I am not upgrading the motor, I screwed up by spraying Easy Off Oven Cleaner on the motor and it took the silver powder coating off!
Ouch.... Easy Off must be wicked stuff.
Too bad it's not just jugs. New jugs can be purchased for not much difference in price then the powder coating costs.
They were assholes about that jub of mine they damaged. Asked all the obvious and logical questions. "Don't you check things when you unpack them?" "Aren't the looked at during the various cleaning and prep processes to make sure they are in fact cleaned and prepped?" Etc etc etc.
They knew they dropped it. They'd all but admit it directly. They just didn't want to be out the cost of replacing it. And since all the parts were already stripped and otherwise unusable without them finishing the work they knew I had little practical choice but to replace it and move on.