So I have done a little more investigating, since the manufacturer of my newest housing actually sent me a video showing his face plates EASILY going together with two different cases (the face plate he used is from the same lot/machinist as my face plate). I know that doesn't 100% confirm the issue to be the case, but I tried something else that just may confirm the case as the culprit.
I took the studs out of both of my housings and lined up the top holes between the case and face plate and as many holes counter-clockwise as possible(which ended up being 4 total in each housing). Then marking which side of the hole was off and taking a "Fully Calibrated" mental picture of how far off the holes were, and the were suspiciously almost EXACTLY the same on both housings. So either the housings are off on the exact same holes a similar amount or my Strange case is off.
Now I need to figure out how to convince Strange that their case is off, because when I called them they were EXTREMELY cocky in telling me that the problem was with the housings and that they have only had 1 case ever returned because it was machined incorrectly. They did admit to me that they only check every 5th case for quality control. Which is pretty good quality control and would provide very high quality parts. I ONLY trust 100% inspection since statistics are all theoretical and basically "**** happens" in the real world...
Man building cars as a hobby is VERY stressful, and NEVER seems to go smoothly! I cannot count the number of times I have been so pissed I have said I was going to sell everything and start woodworking more.
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