For now, I’m making a thing to verify each name matches someone who posted in the thread. That should help. It may also help with matching up requests to the posts where they were made.
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Edit: It found 23 name errors and I fixed all but 4. I don’t see posts in this thread from:
ManWithoutShadow
Petroleum Lantern Guy
Rick
Throw me in to darkness …
It looks like the posts or accounts may have been deleted.
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Edit 2: These have all been accounted for. Every name in the database, at minimum, matches someone who posted in this thread. Can’t say for sure that all the data is correct, but at least an automated tool didn’t spot any more name discrepancies.
Thanks again! I’ve updated my list and script so it can find these two, and more generally so that it can match names which are longer than what BLF displays in the post header.
Agreed. I will take whatever comes for $30, but my real preference is the original raw finish, showing precision manufacture. Ideally with true deep HA3 mil spec ano, greenish but un-dyed, but that could cost. Bead blast and cheap (edit) clear or dyed ano. not my thing, covers up a multitude of sins and is weak, easily scratched, best taken off and polished to bare alloy. It’s what many are used to, but the real deal is quite different.
The taper on the head looks good to me, comfortable, and maybe adds a tiny bit of extra thermal mass.
I withdraw my doubts about the thin-walled co-ax tubes (assuming a decent strong heat-treated alloy is specified), tail e-switch etc. these are what makes it special and unique. Well done Fritz. And the team.