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Dear all,
Just got full set for going windfoiling here Friday afternoon and spent a happy weekend to try and put all the pieces together and check out the beautiful new gear!
Here this sunday afternoon I then started to try figuring out how to put that Slingshot Infinity 84cm foil together. And following your kind advice to select the C-position for being the right thing to do with that size foil and to fit my Levitator 150 board.
But now after trying to put it together for many many hours, researching the internet for close up photos and also youtube videos from SlingShot and also happy foilers, then have come to the point of giving up. It simply cannot be put together with the gear I have in my hand and the screws provided.
I will post a few photos now here below, which hopefully can serve to help you review this with me, and to either conclude I am the lost newbie and need serious help to fathom this new chapter of my life or indeed, if something is wrong with the brand-new SlingShot Infinity Foil set that I just purchased?
My suspicion is that the manufacturing team simply forgot to make notches (think this is what you call those inside railings, cut into the metal inside drilled holes in the fuselage, for the mounting machine screws aka M6 or M8?) to fit into and attach the foil and mast to it? (Rainur?, I think they are called in French. 'K?rv' in Danish, which I know for sure. 
)OK, now I will post a few photos to illustrate how my fuselage looks like in its holes!
Slingshot Infinity fuselage, in the C position end of it:
Notice that you have the screw graining inside the 3 smaller M6 holes here in the C position end of the fuselage!
Now take the A position end of the fuselage stick, and there are no graining/notches inside the 3 smaller M6 holes in that end of the fuselage! As a matter of fact, the M6 screws cannot even get into those holes at all. Did SlingShot forget to make the nothches/screw graining when they manufactured this fuselage??
Hi Cyber
Here is the instructions on the Slingshot webpage. Im surprised you didn't get the small folder with instructions as it should be in the package as standard.
Here below you should be able to check if any hardware is missing etc
www.slingshotsports.com/Images/Slingshot/Quick%20Start%20Guides/2020%20WIND_FOIL_QSG.pdf
If there is a problem on the fuselage, then take it back to the shop you got it from. Or forward them the pics etc if you are far away. It should be easy enough for them to guide you / help you out.
cheers
Jesper
Closeup of the C position end of the fuselage, where the notches/screw graining are there and clear to see!
but am i correct that its badly manufactured and they also ought to have been there for the 3 M6 holes in the other A position end of the fuselage?
I think your right Cyber the small M6 scews for the A position (2nd picture) you took look like they forgot to tap the threads. Never seen that before. I Imagine it's very rare. Slingshot are usually very good with warranty in this case a manufacturing defect. Forgetting the threads would make it difficult to mount a wing
But everyone makes mistakes.
Like Jesper mentioned it should have come with a detailed booklet also, explaining the steps with a diagram aswell to help make sure you use the right bolts. Some bolts look similar but its important to use the right ones as people even shops have put the foil together with shorter bolts for the tuttle head to mast connection resulting in loosing a foil to the bottom of the lake.
), Included in the Infinity Travel Bag was just the 1-pager on how to sign up for the SlingShot Foiling Academy and then a small 3 by 7 inch white paper saying date of Quality Inspection and which 'worker number' that did this QA check at SlingShot... 
And to top it off... I just noticed that SlingShot Manufacturing also forgot to put the air valve screw into my new Levitator 150 board.
I am not impressed......
I've had manufacturing problems with most slingshot items I've bought. One was a fuselage which didn't have the M6 holes threaded all the way through.
Another was my H2 wing cracking at the socket.
They took care of me for the fuselage but the wing I was on my own.
Keep in mind nobody outside the production line does any QC and when you contract in China the cost of actual QC cuts into profit so the customer is the one that does it. I doubt a human looked at that part other than to make sure it was in the box.
Wow!!! All that was missed, slipped through the cracks and sent to the customer. Ouch!! I would see if you can get everything you purchased discounted or more discounted if it already was. That's unacceptable!! They should be able to make it right for you. There customer service always seems to be good. I have had my issues with the merchandise as well, but SS seems to pull through every time, making it right for the customer.
Slingshot are very good with warranty, replaced my fuselage bolts and the mast when half a bolt got stuck in the mast. Have since extracted the broken bolt, how have extra mast.
No conflict of interest in Slingshot to declare. #facepalm
Thank you all!
Yes its clear now, that the Infinity fuselage do not have any threading in the 3 M6 holes in the A-position-end as supposed to, so impossible to mount the wings in that end.
And just to clarify, the Levitator 150 board was missing the air vent screw. The air vent hole and internal threading there, looks OK. I went through all the shipping material very very carefully 3 times now, and the screw itself is simply not there.
The SlingShot reseller already confirmed an air vent screw will be sent to me ASAP.
Fingers crossed they also will get a new correctly manufactured infinity fuselage sent to me within short time.
Its good, it is still early springtime here in Europe and that I was not standing on the beach just yet...
Yes, there was indeed an error on this fuselage, and the screw and the brochure disappeared somewhere.
Thanks for sharing the pdf Jesper.
It was a big mess in this delivery. My sincere apologies Cyber.
New fuselage and screw are packed and on the way to you, probably in your hand before the weekend
Kind regards.
Romain
Windfoil Zone
Is it just me or the Foil Forum is becoming the Singshot Forum? It is incredibly boring. Commercials, semi-commercials, and lots of discussions about a variety of problems with their products ... maybe I'll start a new thread "Has Slingshot ruined the Seabreeze Foil Forum?" 
A floating Loke:
This may be partly because there are a lot of posts from the US. Here in the US, Slingshot foils are everywhere, while other foils are rare (and sometimes hard to get). It did not help that some of the foils that competitors came out were clearly inferior to Slingshot foils. At two of the most popular US East Coast locations, you can get decent other foils now .. but you cannot really use them as a beginner, since they only come with 90+ cm masts, and the spots are shallow. Once you get started on Slingshot, it's much easier to stick to what you know. I'd like to get a faster foil for windier days now, and something like Starboard GT-R may be just right. But that would be a somewhat risky $1000+ investment, while a new Slingshot front wing (i65 or Warp Speed) would be a lot cheaper.
Duzzi
Slingshot has also got it right with many freefoil wings and boards and the competition have been very slow in reacting for the weekend sailors that want to foil and have fun.
We have already gone down the dedicated racing kit path before and yet the majority of weekend/weeknight sailors want something to rig up with little faff and cruise with their mates...very few manufacturers actually understand the concept it seems?
. For Neil pryde I think it had something to do with the failure of the pinkie which lost a few customers to say the least.
Still trying to figure out what "trope" means?
Horue is popular here for boards but all have converted over to Slingshot foils. Obviously being that the boards are made by Flikka they are very nice but the lead time can be weeks/months for one.
Owned several Naish boards and foils and I like their free foil direction. learned on NP pinkie and still have an NP/F4 foil but still feel they have the racing foiler in mind.
The other foils you mention I have not seen or tested. Tried to get AFS but logistically difficult.
. For Neil pryde I think it had something to do with the failure of the pinkie which lost a few customers to say the least.
A bit of Gorge History:
Logosz Sailboards. windsurf.gorge.net/logosz/warbirfa.htm
I don't remember when they started building sailboards; from the copyright on the web page the date is at least 1995.
They had 3 model for a total of 10 different sailboards. I had a Logosz War Birds board (no nose).
They stopped making sailboards and went to the dark side; Slingshot was the next venture the Logosz brothers dabbed in.
