I agree with Bill. Lighten up and don't hassle a guy becuase he's
thinking out loud of doing something different with a series rig than
anyone else may have considered. Perhaps he'll find a way of doing it in
a way not previously thought up.
As to the beef about leafers knowing nothing of coilers, that's
certainly true as to me. In general, all of us would do well to keep the
BS sifters on a fairly fine setting regardless of topic becuase there is
a lot of BS generated when folks are sitting in front of a computer
writing about topics they may have no first hand knowledge of, or may
have dealt with only once, so many months or years ago. I was told I
could rebuild a koenig winch for just a few hundred dollars (by the ^%*^
that sold the broken, rusty rotten thing to me), and while I didn't
believe the guy for a second, I've spent many more dollars than that
actually doing the job. He clearly had no idea of what is actually
involved, was embellishing or lying. You don't know with a capital k,
the answer to a question unless you've had your hands dirty on the same
subject, and even then, each rover and rover component, and problem with
a component may be different. Throw into the mix poor recollections,
embellishment, BS and outright lying (a potential if money is changing
hands), and you have very good reason to consider the source and beware
of BS.
But all of this is no reason to be rude to a new person interested in
series rigs. Especially someone into Scouts.
Simon
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