h_nu said:
Now that I have several bodies for my Pacific, I was wondering if caps will be available for the bodies. It would be useful to use the extra bodies as battery carriers. If they are polymer, maybe red and green to color code would be nice.
If I can get threaded caps I promise to wait semi-patiently for a Baltic and SS Pacific.
I got to see the caps for the battery tubes being machined when I visited Peak's custom shop to see the new shortened AAA battery tubes for using 10280 Li-Ion cells with an ArcAAA or Peak Matterhorn head (modded with a Luxeon).
The caps are a strong white plastic that Peak's machine shop uses as a metal substitute for testing CNC programs, I believe it was called Delrin. I think Peak plans to make them in both white and black but the plastic will take a dye so you can get a white one and dye it any color you want. The caps did not look like cheap plastic lids or injection molded parts, they were
very nicely machined parts, with threads to screw exactly in the battery tube. The caps even had a threaded spot for attaching a keychain post (so you can hang the 'pocket' style body on your keychain).
I tried to get some caps for the cutdown AAA bodies I got while I was there, but the AAA size wasn't made yet. Peak will probably wait until they have some stock available for all the different sizes of battery tubes before they officially announce the new product and add it to their website, since they avoid doing pre-sales, but I got permission to mention that I'd seen the caps in production.