Originally Posted by
Rambozo
Oh I can totally understand wanting to see the manual before purchasing. But this machine is not even on the market yet, so at the moment there is no manual. Those that pre-order are buying the pig in a poke, with the expectation that it will work out, or that Everlast will make good on things. For most models this has been fine, the one exception was issues with the 250EXT. And Everlast did make good on those with either replacements or refunds. I think they learned from that, and now this pre-release testing by people that will poke and prod a bit more than the welding school that originally tested the 250EXT. That testing was great for durability and abuse, but maybe not for all the features and options. While Jody and Wyatt will be good on the latter but probably not as much on the former ;) Both types of testing would be the ideal. Then they will take what they learn from that testing and make any refinements with hardware and or software changes that are needed to get the final polished product ready to go into production. Only then can a final manual be written. So it is very likely that early adopters will have the machine before the manual. The other option is just not to be an early adopter. You can always wait. Since the person that writes the English manual will have to wait for the first shipment of production models to get a sample, there really isn't any way to speed that up. There might be changes between the pre-production samples and the final product, that would need to be included in the final manual.
Of course if you can read Chinese you might have other options. ;)