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Originally Posted by DanielDudley
Take the advice that fits your needs, and disregard that which you have no use for. Consider what you paid for it.
I agree that there are many ways of skinning a cat, but for some, there is only ONE way.
It need not ruin your day.
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I appreciate this response. While it doesn't ruin my day, I do feel a confrontation is appropriate when there's a risk for the community. Take the case through bolt o-ring grease discussion for example. This is one of my main bones to pick with the old dog. Imagine if HS did his homework and discovered a grease that would
double the tensile strength and tear resistance of the VITON rather than
diminishing the original strength by half. Imagine! - it would be a tremendous discovery. Unfortunately he chose and widely distributed the
diminishing strength choice (whoopsy!), and so the old dog groans when he learns there's a better grease option that doesn't diminish strength. Rather than accepting a change to his kibble and acknowledging a lesson, he dismisses and attacks the source (classy move, dog). He continues distribution in order to save face as if nothing were ever wrong, all while using Wayne's site to promote his own wares repeatedly. The continued, non-sponsored advertisement by the old dog for which he has been previously banned, is a whole other discussion.
The risk to the community is the grease he recommends to EVERYONE in that it requires the case holes to be chamfered. The data point on grease choice has a catch - you have to machine your case holes. This catch, the machining part, is
excluded from the grease recommendation. All people are reading is "use HS's wonderful choice in perfect grease used on like six thousand military applications"... which is dangerous if you don't have the machining done on your case. The logic here by HS is similar to the FDA saying: "We recommend everyone drink a non-diet 2Liter bottle of Cola per day" without regard for disclaiming diabetics.
Then comes the static.
The old dog's minions are so quick to heel that they don't care about right or wrong, they just want to fight. Poor HS they exclaim, he's so helpful to everyone and deserves better. He's built a gazillion wing-a-majig thing-a-ma-bobs for like 50yrs, and he likes women and spoons just like I do, so he can't be wrong. "We're practically brothers!!" they exclaim while nodding their heads, hunting and pecking on their keyboards. Trying to talk sense into these minion folks is like PARF spreading to tech. Ignorance is bliss. These are the high in quantity, low in quality 1 star voters on this thread. They're too meek in muster to choose for themselves. They travel in a pack because they're too weak to engage on their own. Disney made a great film on these types recently which I highly recommend.