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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>Does anyone recognise this wasp?<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.numberofthebeast.org/strangedeluxe/">http://www.numberofthebeast.org/strangedeluxe/</A><BR><BR>Its
an odd beast. Its definatly a deluxe, but its also definatly
non-standard.<BR><BR>a 'proper' deluxe can be seen here:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.numberofthebeast.org/deluxe/">http://www.numberofthebeast.org/deluxe/</A><BR><BR>Initially
I just thought it was a deluxe that had been chopped about and abused, but now
im not so sure - i think it may be more 'factory' than that.<BR><BR>The case,
mainly.<BR><BR>Its made in almost exactly the same way as the deluxe.
Stuff like, for instance, the way it has the irritating pcb supports which don't
really work - if you were simply going to copy a deluxe case, then you wouldn't
clone that sort of stuff too. And why go to all that trouble - to get a
deluxe, guillotine 4 inches off the top surface, and rebuild an almost, but not
quite, identically designed case, with the same flaws at the
origional?<BR><BR>Its certainly not just got a chopped down cast though, as the
bulgin (the manufacturer) battery holders are not present.<BR><BR>The do pcbs
look identical though.<BR><BR>So, anyone have any ideas? Im pretty curious
to know.<BR><BR>Julian<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></BODY></HTML>