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Hot, humid night and the big boys are out. This one is about palm-size
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    Morning shinies ;)

    Hot, humid night and the big boys are out. This one is about palm-size
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    The difference between spiders in NZ and Aussie, is that you can squash a spider here and it doesn't turn back and laugh at you.
     

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    I just posted my review on the Nova AIO if anyone is interested. It seems like a solid mod and the rba is easy to build. I think it's the same as the one in the Pulse V2.

     

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    I did get the aspire veynom air.
    Nice little mod. Actually had to close the airflow down using the .3 coil it came with.
    The bp coils do have good flavor.

    I ordered the rba also, but it is frickin tiny and unsure what kind of coil I would use.

    I ordered the gunmetal because it has a leatherish insert. Most of the others had a carbon fiber and I was concerned it may peel or flake. Anyway nice mod and goes up to 80w.
    Oh it has a led bar around the screen that lights and can chase etc. I turned it off thinking it could help battery life. Usb c charging is nice too.

    Hope this is enough to continue my membership for 2025.
     

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    AngeNZ

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    I just posted my review on the Nova AIO if anyone is interested. It seems like a solid mod and the rba is easy to build. I think it's the same as the one in the Pulse V2.


    That made me glad that SM are sending me one to do photos/review
     

    Pigs

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    Watch it! I read they like to get in your car. Kinda like that movie with the crawling hand. lol
    They do - the only serious injuries and deaths caused by Hunstman spiders have been car crashes. Many a time I've been driving along on a summer evening and a big brown (fast!) hairy Hunstman has emerged from under the dash and scrambled across the seats.

    A post script to my spider photo - last night just before bed (an hour after the photo) I was reading at my desk in my bedroom and a tiny little spider dropped on his thread into the pool of light around the reading lamp. Then another...and another...I looked up and saw my once white ceiling had become a strangely pulsing grey colour. Major hatch - many hundreds (thousands?) of tiny, perfectly formed hunstman spiders were crawling all over my ceiling and walls and had started dropping on their silk threads onto my desk, my bed...everywhere...
    So I got out the vacuum cleaner and a step ladder and went to work. 30 minutes later about 90 percent were in the bag. The other 10 percent got away and will grow up into big, fat, hairy adults...
     

    englishmick

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    They do - the only serious injuries and deaths caused by Hunstman spiders have been car crashes. Many a time I've been driving along on a summer evening and a big brown (fast!) hairy Hunstman has emerged from under the dash and scrambled across the seats.

    A post script to my spider photo - last night just before bed (an hour after the photo) I was reading at my desk in my bedroom and a tiny little spider dropped on his thread into the pool of light around the reading lamp. Then another...and another...I looked up and saw my once white ceiling had become a strangely pulsing grey colour. Major hatch - many hundreds (thousands?) of tiny, perfectly formed hunstman spiders were crawling all over my ceiling and walls and had started dropping on their silk threads onto my desk, my bed...everywhere...
    So I got out the vacuum cleaner and a step ladder and went to work. 30 minutes later about 90 percent were in the bag. The other 10 percent got away and will grow up into big, fat, hairy adults...
    Only time I've had to use the vacuum here was with Ladybugs. They get in the walls of the house and hibernate there for the winter, then they all come out together in the spring. There can be hundreds of them, covering all the windows and ceilings. I hate to suck them up because they are cute critters, they all die in the vacuum, but they have to go.
     

    englishmick

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    I was sitting in the kitchen this morning drinking my tea and checking out a Provari in the sunlight. Plain unpainted SS. It's just such a cool mod, Perfect design and the engraving is so cleanly done. Makes me glad I was around during the Provari era. I also have one Goldie and half a dozen painted. Not altogether practical. I use them with KFL's at 3.8V. The batteries don't last long in them, they give up when they get down to around 3.6V.

    The paint wasn't so good. A couple that I used regularly are all chipped and grungy looking. The stainless and the Goldie don't have scratch on them after years of use. I sometimes think about stripping the painted ones but I don't know how to do that.
     

    borno

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    They do - the only serious injuries and deaths caused by Hunstman spiders have been car crashes. Many a time I've been driving along on a summer evening and a big brown (fast!) hairy Hunstman has emerged from under the dash and scrambled across the seats.

    A post script to my spider photo - last night just before bed (an hour after the photo) I was reading at my desk in my bedroom and a tiny little spider dropped on his thread into the pool of light around the reading lamp. Then another...and another...I looked up and saw my once white ceiling had become a strangely pulsing grey colour. Major hatch - many hundreds (thousands?) of tiny, perfectly formed hunstman spiders were crawling all over my ceiling and walls and had started dropping on their silk threads onto my desk, my bed...everywhere...
    So I got out the vacuum cleaner and a step ladder and went to work. 30 minutes later about 90 percent were in the bag. The other 10 percent got away and will grow up into big, fat, hairy adults...
    That gives me the willies. all I get is stinkbugs. lol
     

    Zazie

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    They do - the only serious injuries and deaths caused by Hunstman spiders have been car crashes. Many a time I've been driving along on a summer evening and a big brown (fast!) hairy Hunstman has emerged from under the dash and scrambled across the seats.

    A post script to my spider photo - last night just before bed (an hour after the photo) I was reading at my desk in my bedroom and a tiny little spider dropped on his thread into the pool of light around the reading lamp. Then another...and another...I looked up and saw my once white ceiling had become a strangely pulsing grey colour. Major hatch - many hundreds (thousands?) of tiny, perfectly formed hunstman spiders were crawling all over my ceiling and walls and had started dropping on their silk threads onto my desk, my bed...everywhere...
    So I got out the vacuum cleaner and a step ladder and went to work. 30 minutes later about 90 percent were in the bag. The other 10 percent got away and will grow up into big, fat, hairy adults...
    I'd want to get rid of them, too, but reading your story still made me grieve for the poor babies. I was reminded of an episode of a Jacques Cousteau show that we watched in the sixth grade (the teacher was lazy that day, I guess), during which dozens and dozens of adorable baby sea turtles making their way to the ocean after hatching were picked off one by one by seagulls before they reached the water. I believe I cried.
     

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    I'd want to get rid of them, too, but reading your story still made me grieve for the poor babies. I was reminded of an episode of a Jacques Cousteau show that we watched in the sixth grade (the teacher was lazy that day, I guess), during which dozens and dozens of adorable baby sea turtles making their way to the ocean after hatching were picked off one by one by seagulls before they reached the water. I believe I cried.
    I remember that show, heartbreaking. I probably cursed at the gulls though.
     

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