The most amusing thing about this post is how badly you've busted and dated yourself. Had you followed the link to Brush Research, you would've realized that they are an international conglomerate that could CARE LESS if they had sold the FIRST paintball flexhone and still could care less today. When I bought a new superfine last year(I'm still using my old one though), they made me create a business account and have a $50 minimum order(they've redone their website nicely since and that stuff is no longer required I guess).
My son works for a racing custom shop called Livernois MotorSports and they go through more 'berryhones' as they call them in a month than paintballers have bought in the last fifteen years(not a word from me, they had them when he started!).
Part two is that during the Sheridan/Nelspot era, when there WERE NO removable barrels, pretty much every tourney player and airsmith in the whole country had the 'airsmith kit' from flexhone as I remember. At Hell Survivors they have a set that is older than most of the players(with half the berries missing!) that still work fine. With the dawn of removable barrels everyone forgot about them, because as I said BR never did care for what was to them just an annoyance.
Now to me, not even paying attention to my posts or checking out any of the links I provided and coming up with the classic 'you're being paid' chestnut, is trolling.
You think whether flexhones are superior can be debated because you didn't read ANYTHING I linked and remain in the dark. Please if you consider yourself a reasonable person go here:
Brush Research Manufacturing: Brush Literature
and check out the electron microscope pictures of the surface finish acheived even with fixed hones on piston walls versus the finish put on by flexhones and tell me again you think you can get something that smooth with a big Qtip.
I guess I'm unclear how I can 'state my information simply and quickly and not discredit someone elses', when that person is by implication CALLING ME A LIAR! Saying that flexhones are no more effective than shotgun swabs is a direct contradiction of what I said IN MY FIRST POST in this thread(saying the best suggestion I had was a flexhone, NOT A SWAB) and every post after that, so I've been trolled wrongly for three pages now by people WHO DIDN'T EVEN READ WHAT I WROTE.
Heh-heh,
Does Hoppes pay you to hawk subpar shotgun swabs? I don't think so and wouldn't have even jested about it except for the rude start to your post. Because it's silly.
The 'MCB collective members' as you have so grandly appointed the few members in this thread bashing me(does Carter know?) are wrong. Numbers don't make you right, at one time the 'collective wisdom' was that the earth was flat with dragons at the edge, they were all wrong too.
Pizzaluvr,
Not a problem in the slightest! None of this especially upsets me, it's more of a stubborn streak that won't let people give wrong data as fact if I can help it.
I regret not speaking cocker better and clarifying that a 'wedgit' is in fact Palmer's brand name for their BARREL DETENT.
seperate from a 'ball detent' but a detent nevertheless.
That little usage problem snarled this whole thread right up.
Splattttttt,
I did mention the 'line of nail polish down the barrel' that acts just like a flatline as my reasoning for thinking linear scratches cause spin which hurts accuracy. Crossing scratches would ,I think, be worse as they sometimes contact bare side and sometimes catch seams.
Andrewliu6294,
If you ever come to Hell Survivors in Michigan for any big game or scenario, I'll flexhone that barrel for free and if you're not happy, I'll buy you two to replace it. In fact, if you're not happy with the remaining scratches, just PM me for my address and pay to ship it to me, I'll pay to ship it back and still give a two barrel gaurantee.
Working for flexhone
that still cracks me up!
Rob