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February_1999
Re: Black Widow, how can you tell if it's dedicated?


From: Jess Askey (At Work ;-) ( )
Date: Thu Feb 18 1999 - 11:20:24 CST


wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 wrote:
>
> > How can you tell if a Black Widow is a dedicated or a conversion? Is the
> > side art the same as Gravitar? Any other differences/clues/hints? Please
> > let me know. Thanks,
>
> Easy: It's a conversion. Period.
>
> Some operators got lazy and didn't even switch the side art,
> but even if they did, it was still a field conversion for Gravitar.
>
> I've heard people claiming to have "factory" conversions, but
> I haven't seen/heard of any proof that there actually were factory
> conversions. I guess there's no reason why there wouldn't have been,
> but I don't know of any way to tell them apart.

Im guessing that if the factory *did* do some conversions (which was
probably
some very small amount) that they just used a standard kit and so the
serial
#'s were mixed in along with the public conversion kits.


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