I spoke with the owner of chi literally today. He's really an awesome easy going guy. And his customer service is outstanding. I can't say enough good things about him to be perfectly honest.



Bottom line is he told them they need to redo the entire thing...he said they're just not comparable to the perlicks and other offerings (duh). They need to basically start over. It'll probably be a while, but I think in the time to come, we will see a Shirron replica (hopefully) he even had a customer bring in one of the original Shirron faucets and he was blown away how different it was. He took photos sent those to the manufacture too.



I don't want to wait anymore, so I am returning all of my faucets (less two) for an even exchange for the perlick 630ss (a friend of mine had the Ventmatic and just got the perlick today, he said the perlick is all the way around better.



Matt (owner of chi) is allowing me to keep two of these rough looking ventmatics to throw on to my portable kegerator (who cares if they're ugly, they'll get bashed up anyway)



So it's been a long (VERY LONG) journey, but ultimately I am happy... I get to keep two and I'll get another 6 of the perlick 630ss for my keezer.