Its stuff like this that gets my blood pressure up when the inevitable Hopper Labs personal friends and defenders pop up and tell us how wonderful everything is.
This is NOT fucking acceptable and its NOT a single isolated case.
Says he whose GH is still going strong (I admit it, mine has for some reason stayed strong but its only used maybe a few times a week...its in rotation).
Reliability improvement engineering and QA needs to be Hoppers laser like focus and if these guys really were aerospace engineers then they damn well know it.
I have felt that "nudge" from The Defenders as I've read the discussions here lately. Personally, I think they are better off staying quiet and crash the next GHL meeting with a print-out of our shit here!
Then I will beg them to cheer and even brag because I'll be right there with 'em cheering on GHL.
I think that whole "aerospace" thing was just a shameless "bragging right". Perhaps they never worked anywhere
near the QA department at their former company. Maybe the QA guy kept finding fault with their designs. Still, they're "Aerospace Engineers". I'm an Electrical Engineer. I sucked at it, so I've been in sales for decades.
I don't understand the economic advantages to replacing so many bodies and shipping expenses vs just replacing the whole unit. That and the added gratitude of a faithful customer seems like a smarter choice but then I don't know if they worried it might start a stampede of RMA's? I a
Also, how the f*ck do you justify 6 RMAs on a unit without just shipping a completely new unit to the owner. Unsat. A lemon is a lemon.
Unless GHL comes out with new products to market, how can they be able to service Lifetime warranties without be definition going out of business from hemorrhaging on RMAs?
What's more the thing that sticks in my craw is that maybe they
do have a higher yield of robust product but they simply do not wish to spend money on a QA procedure that would weed out the lemons.
The other screen is at the bottom of the oven. That's what was being discussed recently when somebody (I forget who, please forgive me) figured out how to remove it and found gunk to clean underneath. But for now, that level of cleaning doesn't seem to be recommended by ghl.
I'm not entirely in the loop of the recent discussion about the removal of this oven screen, the gunk discovered, and the hypotheses about it, but to me that screen doesn't look friendly enough for me to fuck with. If a Hopper will die eventually because those under-layer needs a cleaning, then GHL should remind themselves that they have this BLOG they aren't using to educate its customers. JEEEZUS!
Having vented thusly, and I do appreciate the space to do so
, I have started doing a much more frequent after-burn on an empty chamber.
So, you know, we all have to doctor this thing ourselves, and we figure this shit out. Again.
Upon further inspection with a 30x magnifier i noticed there are AIR openings under the clip
and one AIR slot on the flat body part next to the threads on the back end.
The mysteries continuous......air buoyancy thru-out the entire body
Wut?
I don't see anything like an air slot... can you send a picture? Is this also on Ti's because I only have Ti's.
I doubt it could be harmful if you let it dry out completely but why Hopper labs take this chance? I wouldn't... But that shit backfired unfortunatelly and dirty Hoppers obviously get all kinds of trouble when gunked up.![:\](/i/s/hmm.gif "Hmm :\")
To be frank, I didn't even know they changed the manual, I thought body dipping was still mentioned in it like I remembered! 
