Frequently asked questions
1. What are the differences between BTD and PTL kits?
2. Which of the torque settings should I use?
3. Can you recommend a specific kit or a tool?
4. Are your products made in the U.S.A.?
5. Can I place my order over the phone?
6. Can I purchase BTD (Borka Torque Driver) only?
7. Do you offer any discounts or promotional pricing?
8. Can you send a free sample for our professional review?
9. Can you send a free sample to our company for evaluation?
10. Can our company become a Borka Tools dealer or a distributor?
11. Do you export any of your products?
12. Can you, on occasion, supply products for resale as needed?
13. How can our company make a volume purchase of your tools?
14. Will you provide a quote for a single item?
15. Will you ship retail orders internationally?
16. Will you replace screwdriver bit if I broke (or lost) it?
17. I have a product design idea, can I offer it to Borka?
18. What are your payment terms and refunds policy?
19. What are your warranty terms and conditions?
- What are the differences between BTD and PTL based torque tool kits? Which one is better for my needs?
- BTD kit is a
universal torque tool kit, and while being more expensive
than either a single or two PTLs kit, it is suitable for work on a
very wide variety of firearms and optical scope setups. BTD is
fully adjustable by the user, and this important feature
requires the user to follow certain steps in order to achieve high level
of torque output accuracy and consistency. Our PTL kit
is a designated torque tool kit,
and is typically less expensive option if used in a right
setting. Each PTL unit is preset to a single specific
torque limiting value. It is not user-adjustable and is very
effective as a component of a designated maintenance kit for the
high value precision rifle. PTL kit is also a great solution for
gunsmithing shop, professional rifle builder, military/LE
armourer, in limited production and in R&D environment.
Comparing BTD and PTL kits with a monetary value in mind, it
becomes obvious that if an individual user expects to work with
more than three (3) specific torque settings, BTD based kit becomes
a much more cost effective choice. This is the main reason why
Borka Tools off-the-shelf PTL kits are limited to either a
single or two PTL kits, but with an option for a customer to add
more PTLs as needed.
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- I just purchased your torque kit. What are the torque settings I should use for scope rings, scope mounts and action screws on my rifles?
- This information is typically
provided to the end users by the manufacturers of optics, scope rings,
mounts
and
rifles. We do respect the work done by these
manufacturers in determining the correct torque settings and
therefore, we do not provide our own tightening torque
recommendations, which may or may not be in line with
manufacturers recommendations. If you already happen
to know recommended torque settings, we’ll be happy to discuss
with you which of the available torque tools may work the best for your specific
rifle/scope combo.
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- I need some torque tools and I have a bunch of various fireams and scopes. Can you recommend which one of your kits and other tools will work for me?
- We'll be happy to assist you to
the best of our ability. But before you contact us, please find
out yourself which of the torque settings are recommended for
your own firearms, scope rings and mounts, etc. We can then
discuss various options and provide recommendations,
based on your own requirements. If you are not sure what exactly
do you want, we can not make this decision for you. So, please
be as specific and precise as possible.
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- Are your products made in the U.S.A.?
- All Borka Tools adjustable torque drivers are made in the U.S. However, PTLs are not
available from any of the U.S. manufacturers. For this reason,
PTLs are made in Taiwan per Borka Tools specifications. Accessories and packaging are composed
of the U.S. made and imported parts from Taiwan and Germany.
We would strongly prefer everything to be made in the U.S. Unfortunately,
some components of our kits are
not made in the U.S., and have to be imported.
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- Can I place an order over the phone?
- We strongly prefer not to take
credit card orders over the phone, because we do not want to
know any of your financial information. If you do not feel
comfortable with "Add to Cart"
buttons, because you "...do not trust Internet", we
suggest to use an alternative of USPS money order(s)
sent by regular mail.
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- Can I purchase BTD (Borka Torque Driver) only?
- No. BTDs are currently sold in various kit configurations only, no exceptions.
- Do you offer any discounts or promotional pricing?
- We do not offer any discounts, regardless of the order quantity or the
buyer's status. With consideration to substantial increase in
our production costs and domestic economic
conditions, negatively affected by inflation, we can no longer afford
any discounts, such as dealer discounts, Military/LE discounts,
industry discounts or promotional pricing. Our current website
prices are set as low as possible in order to maintain our business
activities.
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- I’m a professional reviewer or magazine writer. Can you send to me a free sample of Borka Tools product?
- We do not provide free samples for reviews.
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- I’m a
large volume purchaser, or OEM customer.
Can you provide free samples
of Borka tool kits or other Borka items for evaluation?
- We do not provide free samples.
Please purchase samples as a retail customer.
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- Can our company become a Borka Tools dealer or a distributor?
-
As of today,
we do not accept any domestic or international dealer applications.
We sell to all U.S. customers directly, and do not have any use for distributors.
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- Do you export any of your products?
- We do not export our products. We will not ship our products to any destinations
located outside
the 48 U.S. contiguous states, Hawaii and Alaska. We will not
ship to freight, package and mail forwarding companies, located
in the U.S.
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- I have a customer, who is interested in certain Borka Tools products. Will you sell these products to my company for resale to this customer?
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If your business is related to firearms tools, and if your
customer strongly prefers to do business only with your company,
we'll give consideration to your request. However, we'll not be
selling our products to you at discounted prices.
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- Our organization is interested to purchase certain quantity of Borka Tools items for use by our members. Should we do business directly with Borka Tools or we can use Borka Tools sales associate to obtain your tools?
- If you're interested in volume
purchase, always send your inquiry to Borka Tools.
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- Will you provide a quote for a single item? Our organization wishes to see such quote in order to consider a purchase.
- No, because item(s) price and
related shipping charges will be exactly the same as already
posted on our website. Quotes for shipping charges will be
provided for 4 or more items. If you require a quote for
multiple items, to be prepared with consideration to your own terms and conditions
of sale, we have to use hired
professional to carefully analyze this information. So, get
ready for an additional expense, to be
paid upfront at a rate of $350/hour. In order to avoid this
expense, we suggest that you keep your RFQ as simple as
possible, and do not specify your own terms and conditions of
sale.
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- I permanently or temporarily reside in a foreign country. Will you ship retail orders internationally?
- We do not
accept and do not ship any orders to any destinations, located outside borders of the
50 U.S. states. Also, please take into consideration that we do
not provide either warranty or technical support for Borka products, located
outside the borders of the 50 U.S. states. When our
potential customers from outside the borders of the 50 U.S.
states try to order our products online, they will be very
surprised to see $250,000 shipping charge. Take note that we have to do this in line with
PayPal suggestion:
"You can not block shipping to a particular country
or destination,
however for the ones you do not intend to ship to,
make the shipping charges so high that it
will discourage anyone from placing an order."
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- I broke (or lost) one of the screwdriver bits,
included with my Borka Tools kit.
Will you replace it?
- We use only
top quality screwdriver bits, which are supplied by one of the
best screwdriver bits makers in the world. While traditionally
having an extremely low failure rate, all of the screwdriver
bits from Borka Tools are consumables. This is a common
practice, for example, see "Exclusions" from Wiha (known tool
maker from Germany);
https://www.wihatools.com/no-hassle-guarantee.
In line with this practice, Borka bits are not covered by warranty for damage or loss
by the user. FYI, you
can always purchase replacement bits.
1" long bit is only $.50, however, shipping by USPS First Class
Mail is $4.50. There is nothing we can do to ship it at a lesser
cost. So, purchasing a replacement bit will cost
$5.00.
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- I have a product design idea, can I offer it to BorkaTools?
- No, you
should never offer any product design ideas to Borka Tools.
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Payment terms and refunds policy
Borka Tools, Division of Borka Enterprises, operates its business exclusively on the basis of available cash flow and does not use, as a matter of principle, bank loans, bank lines of credit and other related type of debt. This business model, chosen by Borka Tools, rules out any form of financing from Borka Tools to any third parties for purchases of Borka Tools products, for example such as allowing various forms of delayed payments. In line with our strategic objective to stay financially independent, terms of payment are configured to support such debt free model of operation.
1. All orders should be pre-paid before orders are delivered.
2. Customers, who make extensive use of payment delays in doing
business with their suppliers by specifying, for example, fifteen
days (net 15) or thirty days (net 30) terms, will not be able to use
such terms with Borka Tools. Such customers should consider using
their own bank credit lines, if they look for the benefit of
delayed payment.
3. When we issue a partial or full refund to a buyer via PayPal, the
fees paid by us to PayPal are no longer being returned to us.
Fees are nearly 3.5% for domestic funding sources and 5.5% for foreign
funding sources. What this means is that PayPal keeps the fees it charged for the purchase,
eliminating our ability to return these fees to our customers.
Before October of 2019, PayPal only kept the fixed
30-cent transaction fee when a refund was issued but still gave back to the sellers the rest of the fees,
and we could make 100% refunds.
Because of this very
unfortunate change in PayPal policies, we can only refund 96.5% (or 94.5%)
of the amount, originally received from the buyer.
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Borka Tools products, except for screwdriver bits (see below), are covered by a five year warranty against manufacturing defects, including parts and labor, with warranty period being initiated from the date of purchase. Pouches and cases are not covered by the warranty, unless these items, upon their return for our examination, are found to have pronounced manufacturing defects. Tool tubes and containers for small parts and fluids are not covered by the warranty.
Borka torque tools with mechanical damage on the outside, which may potentially affect either functionality or torque output accuracy, or the same tools which were misused, re-adjusted or altered by the user, are not covered by warranty.
Borka Tools uses top quality screwdriver bits, which are supplied by one of the best screwdriver bits makers in the world. While having an extremely low failure rate, all Borka Tools screwdriver bits are considered to be consumables, which is a common approach, practiced by many screwdriver bits vendors and suppliers. For this reason, screwdriver bits are not covered by the warranty.
Our customers residing in the U.S.A. are advised to contact Borka Tools directly with potential warranty claims, if they purchased our tools and accessories from the U.S. based Borka Tools dealers or directly from Borka Tools.
If product in question is found to have manufacturing defects, requiring certain repair or replacement, it will be done free of charge for the U.S. customer, who will be also reimbursed for up to $7.00 in shipping costs to Borka Tools.
Warranty
limitations for international customers:
Due to already high
and constantly rising cost of international shipping, Borka Tools
will not be able to directly provide above mentioned warranty to
international customers, who should instead contact Borka Tools
dealers in their countries of residence.
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