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Taking a look down the tube showed that they used welded-seam tubing and didn’t bother to clean up the internal seam.
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Yup, that’s the teltale sign of a cold solder joint.
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I’m to believe I’ve won $255,069.00 in a contest I’ve never entered. The “69” is a nice touch, I’d say.
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A half-dozen good shots later, the backplate spun free.
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We hived a giant swarm!
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A pair of very-nearly-perfect slip fit tubes neatly adapted the small ferrules to the large stops.
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That bug and its ilk have been repeatedly fixed … and (it seems) to no avail.
