Phantom Number 4's and Other Fables

The gripboard is all afire over the Phantom Number 4 "mythos" as well as the Silver Crush number 3. Look grippers vary. I have no doubt the silver crush #3 was tough. But to elevate it to some gripper that only a handful can close is getting borderline fantasy. The "Phantom Number 4" was calibrated by PDA, when they were in the calibration game. It supposedly tested harder than any number 4, how convenient.

If you do some Gripboard searches on the gripper calibration fiasco, you will soon find out that most of the measurements that PDA produced were basically duck shit.

Richard Sorin has measured the old number 3 with a .287 spring and the new number 3's at .280. Everyone else hase measured the number 3 at .281.

Frankly this debate is a complete waste of time.

Look, oldtime legends, your place has been set. No need to constantly stroke your own ego. It starts to get boring.

Newbies, stop encouraging this shameful behavior. It is embarassing to the gripworld.

Flame off.