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Are people really this stupid? They think that because I tested Pains
Wessex SOLAS flares and Orion flares that I shouldnt expect the Orion flares to work. Huh? Generally when I buy something, i expect it to work almost as well as advertised. For safety equipment, I expect even more. In this case, NONE of the Orion flares fired. GET THAT, NONE, not even the current ones. ZERO, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH. ALL THE PAINS WESSEX fired. Get that, I meant ALL, even those 9 years old, ALLL, A-L-L.. Now, if yer too stupid to understand this, git outa the boat afore you git hurt. |
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"Frogwatch" wrote in message oups.com... Are people really this stupid? They think that because I tested Pains Wessex SOLAS flares and Orion flares that I shouldnt expect the Orion flares to work. Huh? Generally when I buy something, i expect it to work almost as well as advertised. For safety equipment, I expect even more. In this case, NONE of the Orion flares fired. GET THAT, NONE, not even the current ones. ZERO, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH. ALL THE PAINS WESSEX fired. Get that, I meant ALL, even those 9 years old, ALLL, A-L-L.. Now, if yer too stupid to understand this, git outa the boat afore you git hurt. There was a recall on the Orion Flare guns. I think was something I read in BoatUS Seaworthy. Maybe google it. |
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Charlie Morgan wrote: On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:07:33 GMT, "Calif Bill" wrote: "Frogwatch" wrote in message roups.com... Are people really this stupid? They think that because I tested Pains Wessex SOLAS flares and Orion flares that I shouldnt expect the Orion flares to work. Huh? Generally when I buy something, i expect it to work almost as well as advertised. For safety equipment, I expect even more. In this case, NONE of the Orion flares fired. GET THAT, NONE, not even the current ones. ZERO, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH. ALL THE PAINS WESSEX fired. Get that, I meant ALL, even those 9 years old, ALLL, A-L-L.. Now, if yer too stupid to understand this, git outa the boat afore you git hurt. There was a recall on the Orion Flare guns. I think was something I read in BoatUS Seaworthy. Maybe google it. It had top do with the breech not opening far enough to insert the flare. CWM Pains Wessex hand flares 9 years old fired with no problems (9 Pains Wessex flares) ALL hand held Orion flares from less than 2 years old to 6 years old failed to fire (a total of 12-15 Orion ). I fired a very large number of 12 guage Olin/Orion flares ranging from almost out-of-date (but still current) to 15 years old. Only the current ones performed satisfactorily. I cannot remember the number of Pains Wessex parachute flares but it was roughly 6. All fired ok although two older ones had their chutes fail partially. |
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