mahgister,
Don't think for a moment that I discourage playing about with the system. This should be fun. I go back to say 1963 when I was rewinding my slot car motors with #32 wire, balancing, polishing, and upgrading my Mabuchi's to beat the expensive Mura brand name motors. I got pretty good at it. I built my own frames from scratch as well just as I build amplifiers now.
The idea I wanted to express was not that you should not experiment. I applaud your initiative. That's a sane way to approach things, experiment and verify results.
What I did want to put on the table was the note that the original poster asked a fun question about the most ridiculous, bizarre, and laughable aspects of our hobby, a subject that should have been greeted with mirth, and while many joined in with the fun, a number of purveyors of the ridiculous, bizarre, and laughable descended on the tableau to let us know that the loony way is the way of the wise. The cabal of the crazy could not restrain themselves from educating us away from our transgressions.
Please, those of us who, dare I say it, have been doing this for over 40 years, yes I said it again, have had time and experience to sort the wheat from the chaff.
There are plenty of people still angry about Copernicus. There are Alchemists about still. Listen to them if you like. That's fine. Still, as I asked before, why do those revisionists who refuse to let skeptics think like skeptics insist so assuredly of promulgating the absurd as Gospel so vociferously that a fun thread becomes, well becomes what a lot of threads become.
Keep experimenting. Keep thinking. Keep having fun. That's exactly what you should do.
Listening to the eye bulging Gurus?
Not so much.
Cheers,
Lance
