Ridire Firean
Sr Member
Re: LIGHTSABER - OBI-WAN KENOBI - REAL PARTS BUILD - THE JOURNEY HAS BEGUN!~Ridire Fi
Hey fezfox ! Nope, not yet. I asked the seller for additional photos to prove it was real as the photos I saw weren't the greatest and it looked like it had been used (the seller claims it was never installed on a machinegun).
This was the last correspondence I received from the seller...
"Extra photos are a waste of our time.
You are right anyone COULD cover up the item with grease and Cosmo.
If you search the web you can even find a welded up one so it really does not matter much welder or not.
“They said”, Fat old ******** at a gun show don’t have a clue what part you are even speaking of.
Pass on it is best, this way we don’t have to take the pics of a item you will not purchase anyway.
If we do get around to more pics the booster and bearing will be 1095.00
Thank you for your interest"
So, I haven't bothered to email them back, that was two months ago now, still no pics. The ******** is the other term for a donkey combined with what you get when you dig circular shapes out of the ground with a shovel.
The thing the bothers me most, besides their lack of interest selling the item (seriously, who can be too busy to take a couple of photos to make a sale? you should see what I go through as a salesman somedays to make a meager $10.00 sale), and besides their vulgarity to a would-be customer, is that this particular booster and bearing look a lot like a Roman's replica. It's not the super-pointy-finned kind like what I've seen other REAL PARTS OBI-WAN KENOBI LIGHTSABERs here at TheRPF have. And then there's teecrooz 's bearing that was spruced up to look real, and..... I'm not paying that kind of money for anything to someone unwilling to assure me it's a genuine product. Seems to me a reasonable request. This guy will have this thing forever, I'M CERTAIN OF IT. Therefore, I'll wait for them to remember that someone (me) was interested in it, when they decide they actually want to sell it, they have my email address, and they can send me the photos at that point in time... or they'll still have this thing forever!
Right now I'm focusing my efforts on finding that darned transistor model number!!! I really want to be the guy to figure that out once and for all. I would love for that to be my contribution to the Star Wars community. Of course, I will have to buy up every single one of them in the wild before I announce the discovery though... I mean, I have to have a way to pay for a female balance pipe somehow, right?
Seriously though, I've been through every transistor website I can find, twice!!, and scrolled and scrolled and scrolled through countless Google images and eBay auctions, and still I can't find that stamp-mark on anything. Not even if I include the "what if some of it was rubbed off". My next step is trying to find an old book about transistors at the library, and with any luck (I'm doubting it since none of my other inquiries have been answered) I'll get a response from the Tom Jung photo auction folks. Wait, dog-gone-it! That's what I was supposed to do today. I won't get a response if I don't send the email I started yesterday! Oh well, at least my garden doesn't have any weeds in it and I got all my seeds planted. Tomorrow then.
Hey fezfox ! Nope, not yet. I asked the seller for additional photos to prove it was real as the photos I saw weren't the greatest and it looked like it had been used (the seller claims it was never installed on a machinegun).
This was the last correspondence I received from the seller...
"Extra photos are a waste of our time.
You are right anyone COULD cover up the item with grease and Cosmo.
If you search the web you can even find a welded up one so it really does not matter much welder or not.
“They said”, Fat old ******** at a gun show don’t have a clue what part you are even speaking of.
Pass on it is best, this way we don’t have to take the pics of a item you will not purchase anyway.
If we do get around to more pics the booster and bearing will be 1095.00
Thank you for your interest"
So, I haven't bothered to email them back, that was two months ago now, still no pics. The ******** is the other term for a donkey combined with what you get when you dig circular shapes out of the ground with a shovel.
The thing the bothers me most, besides their lack of interest selling the item (seriously, who can be too busy to take a couple of photos to make a sale? you should see what I go through as a salesman somedays to make a meager $10.00 sale), and besides their vulgarity to a would-be customer, is that this particular booster and bearing look a lot like a Roman's replica. It's not the super-pointy-finned kind like what I've seen other REAL PARTS OBI-WAN KENOBI LIGHTSABERs here at TheRPF have. And then there's teecrooz 's bearing that was spruced up to look real, and..... I'm not paying that kind of money for anything to someone unwilling to assure me it's a genuine product. Seems to me a reasonable request. This guy will have this thing forever, I'M CERTAIN OF IT. Therefore, I'll wait for them to remember that someone (me) was interested in it, when they decide they actually want to sell it, they have my email address, and they can send me the photos at that point in time... or they'll still have this thing forever!
Right now I'm focusing my efforts on finding that darned transistor model number!!! I really want to be the guy to figure that out once and for all. I would love for that to be my contribution to the Star Wars community. Of course, I will have to buy up every single one of them in the wild before I announce the discovery though... I mean, I have to have a way to pay for a female balance pipe somehow, right?
Seriously though, I've been through every transistor website I can find, twice!!, and scrolled and scrolled and scrolled through countless Google images and eBay auctions, and still I can't find that stamp-mark on anything. Not even if I include the "what if some of it was rubbed off". My next step is trying to find an old book about transistors at the library, and with any luck (I'm doubting it since none of my other inquiries have been answered) I'll get a response from the Tom Jung photo auction folks. Wait, dog-gone-it! That's what I was supposed to do today. I won't get a response if I don't send the email I started yesterday! Oh well, at least my garden doesn't have any weeds in it and I got all my seeds planted. Tomorrow then.
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