Hi Curt,
re the tank truck..it can stir up water that may be in the tank from condensation. In more recent days (years?) the alcohol content in the gasoline takes care of that.
I have had to replace missing or defective small parts in kits before. I actually successfully replaced defective new parts with detritus from the junk box and those parts soldiered on:)
I suspect I was half kidding about the new parts you bought. But it's always about the luck of the draw.
73,
Bill KU8H
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On 1/20/19 1:02 PM, Curt M. wrote:
Hi Bill, my theory wasn¡¯t new versus old like buying a fresher loaf of bread, it was more about buying from a different source. I¡¯m not one to believe that defective components, especially the same component runs ramped througout the world and in many cases the age of a component except in a few cases makes very little difference.
My thought was the being that this doesn¡¯t seem to be a widespread issue even amoung the kits Hans is turning out, buying the caps from what more than likely will be a different source and a completely different production run probably not even made in the same factory should at least rule out the issues that other people were seeing if in fact the caps were part of the issue which is still questionable. $6 or whatever I paid won¡¯t break me so regardless of if the ones shipped with my kit were suspect, in my mind it was money well spent.
I used to have a neighbor that would buy gasoline if he saw the tanker truck at the gas station because it was ¡°better gas¡± than what was already in their tanks. ?Somehow the new gas magically separated itself from the existing gas and made its way through the pump and into his car leaving the old gas behind. The guy that lives on the other side of him said ¡°you never want to buy gas when the tanker is there because that churns up the dirt in the undersground tank while they are filling it¡±. We all have different ways of rationalizing things. Hi Hi
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