Good job Alan, use the metal throttle tube by all means, I wish all mine were metal, one of the problems I had recently with preparing my spare Triumph Rocket III for a Roadworthy inspection was that the OEM plastic thottle tube had somehow bulged inwards and was rubbing on the bars, and no amount of grinding from the inside was of any help.
As for that Ebay seller, leave him neutral feedback and state why, "Good parts, good price, but lazy packaging, luckily they survived shipping, just." Why let him get away with it? Imagine what those parts would look like by the time they arrived at my front door, after they'd been through the hands (and boots) of many postal workers on both sides of the ocean.
I received a complete Yamaha SD6 gearbox that a seller sent in one of those USPS paper thin boxes, and the seller was pissed at me for leaving him neutral feedback, even though there was a hole in the box and some parts had probably fallen out. I say "probably" because I would have to check numerous parts against the factory parts manual, so I just shoved it in the tub with all the other SD6 parts, and I guess I'll find out when I start that build.
