Physical Chess epee point -- screw in tip?

[Ken]

I just purchased two electric epees from Physical Chess in NJ. One
tested OK on the bench but failed to work the first time on the strip.

I have a little training in epee repair and have rewired epees with
standard Frech points. These epees have points with no screws in the
sides of the tip; rather they have one screw in the end of the tip.

I think the problem is in the tip, but I am not getting any help from
Physical Chess -- which told me I have to pay for a repair on a brand
new defective weapon! One screw for the tip and one screwing for me.

Can someone please point me to a schematic for this kind of tip?

Ken
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[Harold Buck]

In article <k0h7r0p9ufgirolfef60ejokblppqebm83@4ax.com>,
Ken <cprstn54zz@att.net> wrote:

> I think the problem is in the tip, but I am not getting any help from
> Physical Chess -- which told me I have to pay for a repair on a brand
> new defective weapon! One screw for the tip and one screwing for me.


This is not their standard policy. When I was ordering from them, the
standard policy was for them to have you send the item back so they
could send you a different defective item.

It took me TWO YEARS to get working bodycords when I ordered four
electric saber starter sets for my high school team. Granted, our season
was only four months, so it's not like I was sending them back 12 months
out of the year. One time I got the package, plugged them into my
bodycord tester, and they were bad. The other times, they gave
intermittent off-target.

They were, however, good about replacing blades that broke far too soon,
and I liked their jackets. Eventually, though, there were so many
problems I switched to Blue Gauntlet.

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

[Harold Buck]

looked at it briefly, Kennedy's name was there. According to an
interview with writer Debbie Davis, Ben Bradlee once told
television personality David Frost that the diary was not even a
diary but in fact a sketchbook.

In this regard, Tony Bradlee made a telling comment to the
National Enquirer in 1976. In the notes written up from her
interview, after she has discussed (with a bit of ambiguity)
whether or not Kennedy's name was in the diary, she is quoted as
saying: "But the diary was destroyed. I'll tell you that much is
true." The suggestion in the last sentence is that everything
else is not. Or, at least, the diary's destruction is all she
knows for a fact.

If Mary's own sister is not forthright, then who among the rest
is? Don't rely on Rosenbaum to find out. He is a friend of both
Angleton and the Post. Consider the man who helped him write his
1976 Mary Meyer piece, one Philip Nobile. When I interviewed
Deborah Davis about the attempted censorship of her book, which
exposed the Post's ties to the CIA, she told me that her troubles
began with a whispering campaign to her publisher. The whisperer
was Rosenbaum's partner Nobile. When that wasn't enough, Nobile
talked to Alexander Cockburn of the Village Voice. Cockburn
printed the rumors that her book was unfounded and that she had
cried in her publishers' office when challenged on this. Both
accounts were untrue. But Cockburn was not an unbiased observer.

As Nobile must have known, his live-in girlfriend at the time was
Kay Graham's daughter. It is odd that Rosenbaum would choose to
write on such a controversial subject with someone who seems to
be such a friend to the Post. Related to that, in his 1991
reflections on the 1976 article, and in the article itself, he
tries to insinuate that these people - Bradlee, the Truitts, the
Angletons - are a

[Ken]

in the
story that he himself presents, tells us even more. For example,
he relates that Tony Bradlee found the diary. Yet in the article,
in the presented notes of an interview with her, she seems to
refer to more than one person being with her at that time. Also,
in those notes, Tony states that they were all honor bound not to
look at the diary. Yet Rosenbaum says that Angleton read,
indexed, and took notes on everything she found.

As is his bent, Rosenbaum seems intent on not probing key parts
of the story. The man who thinks Oswald shot at Kennedy (and
believes John Davis' Mafia Kingfish is as close as we will get to
a conspiracy alternative to Oswald), does not ask the question as
to why the Truitts seem to be siding with Angleton. That is,
unlike Bradlee's version, there are no hints of Angleton breaking
into places unexpectedly. Also indicative of this is that
Angleton, a source for Rosenbaum in 1976, said the diary was to
be entrusted to the Truitts. Yet Anne Truitt signed off on the
1995 L. A. Times letter saying it was meant to be handled by
Angleton himself. Both cannot be true. This is interesting
because it implies a relationship between the two couples. And
his wife's loyalty to Angleton is proven.

Truitt and Leary add Drugs

As noted earlier, Jim Truitt gave this curious tale its first
public airing in 1976, on the heels of the Church Committee. From
there, the Washington Post (under Bradlee) picked it up. There
had been an apparent falling out between Truitt and Bradlee and
Truitt said that he wanted to show that Bradlee was not the
crusader for truth that Watergate or his book on Kennedy had made
him out to be. In the National Enquirer, Truitt stated that Mary
had revealed her affair with Kennedy while she was al

[Harold Buck]

Uh, yeah. That wasn't me posting that.

In article
<dd_fee$uexzi_AAA1D4.86581578055744@comcast.dca.gi ganews.com>,
Harold Buck <no_one_knows@comcast.net> wrote:

> looked at it briefly, Kennedy's name was there. According to an
> interview with writer Debbie Davis, Ben Bradlee once told
> television personality David Frost that the diary was not even a
> diary but in fact a sketchbook.
>
> In this regard, Tony Bradlee made a telling comment to the
> National Enquirer in 1976. In the notes written up from her
> interview, after she has discussed (with a bit of ambiguity)
> whether or not Kennedy's name was in the diary, she is quoted as
> saying: "But the diary was destroyed. I'll tell you that much is
> true." The suggestion in the last sentence is that everything
> else is not. Or, at least, the diary's destruction is all she
> knows for a fact.
>
> If Mary's own sister is not forthright, then who among the rest
> is? Don't rely on Rosenbaum to find out. He is a friend of both
> Angleton and the Post. Consider the man who helped him write his
> 1976 Mary Meyer piece, one Philip Nobile. When I interviewed
> Deborah Davis about the attempted censorship of her book, which
> exposed the Post's ties to the CIA, she told me that her troubles
> began with a whispering campaign to her publisher. The whisperer
> was Rosenbaum's partner Nobile. When that wasn't enough, Nobile
> talked to Alexander Cockburn of the Village Voice. Cockburn
> printed the rumors that her book was unfounded and that she had
> cried in her publishers' office when challenged on this. Both
> accounts were untrue. But Cockburn was not an unbiased observer.
>
> As Nobile must have known, his live-in girlfriend at the time was
> Kay Graham's daughter. It is odd that Rosenbaum would choose to
> write on such a controversial subject with someone who seems to
> be such a friend to the Post. Related to that, in his 1991
> reflections on the 1976 article, and in the article itself, he
> tries to insinuate that these people - Bradlee, the Truitts, the
> Angletons - are a
>
>



--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson