Well, in all fairness and to clarify... the information about the Janitrol mixing valve was actually revealed by me first on FFprops (since I managed to discover it myself after the thread closed), but ZK was still the first prop collector to find it. That credit is all his.
I actually spoke to a really cool helicopter technician the other day (not the one that has parts available- someone else) that instantly knew what I was talking about and is a big fan of the show. He started asking if I was remaking Firefly and said that if I was he'd send me one for free, lol! He had recognized the valve when he saw the show. (A shame he isn't a member here or we would have known about it YEARS ago, haha.)
I've been one of the more hard-core Firefly fans/collectors for a while now. I know a lot of folks both here and on the FF forum. I think what sparked the big flame was that the search for this part has so far been a community effort with information freely shared.That's where the sense of "entitlement", if there was any, came from (i.m.h.o.). In the end it all just got out of hand and maybe the locking of the thread was a tad premature since it didn't allow people to sort it out. So maybe everyone can just agree that everyone is sorry that it went down like it did and move on? Solid? :thumbsup
ZK... since you're a newer fan of the show and the Mal pistol is your first prop from it... why did you choose the catalyzer as the second? In the 1-2 years that is has taken to find it you could've gotten lots of other Verse props (like the 47a). It's not the most obvious prop to expend such effort in finding when you're not a hard-core fan.
Oh, and everyone should know that finding one that looks EXACTLY like the one in the show might be close to impossible. The manufacturing license for these has been passed down to several manufacturers. (Honeywell owns it now.) Depending on if the tooling was passed on or modified, there may be differences. Certainly, as these things have been rebuilt and refurbished, certain parts will have been replaced with possibly non-OEM versions. (Such as the black connector above which is not on the one ZK bought, nor is it on the ones currently available.) Kudos on starting the search for it ZK (I was thinking if 3d modeling one if we can't find it, haha.).
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