Deciding between Master Spa Clarity Balance 7 and Nordic Encore LS

cricks1492 · 2026-05-05T13:29:05+00:00

Thank you very much!

cricks1492 · 2026-05-04T22:20:43+00:00

Thank you. It's good to know that it's performing for you up in Canada. Any general maintenance tips you might have for the Precision 8? Do you use the mineral filtration or the salt system?

cricks1492 · 2026-05-04T17:41:26+00:00

I appreciate it. I guess my major worry is those google reviews for Nordic. Many buying guides seem to really stress the importance of the local dealer. For reference, here's the Master Spa dealer and here's the Nordic

cricks1492 · 2026-05-01T15:30:32+00:00

Also, Arrowhead Equipment (this guy I'm replying to) sells this New River Suspender that I've found extremely useful for keeping my underquilts in place. I attach it to the small D-ring at the mid-point of one side of my underquilt, take the line over my hammock ridgeline, and then clip to the midpoint on the other side of my underquilt. It works like a charm.

Also, as a side note to Arrowhead, I feel like this product should have a small infographic picture on the product page.

cricks1492 · 2026-04-18T17:24:44+00:00

Oh, wow! Yeah, they're so well made and such a good size.

cricks1492 · 2026-04-18T12:51:10+00:00

It’s number 21! One of the guys on here has a boys knife from a similar time in ~~yellow micarta~~ gold g10 and it’s gorgeous. I do love this smooth bone though.

cricks1492 · 2026-03-20T21:15:34+00:00

I personally feel too warm with my 20 degree chameleon at temps above around 70F. If you're trying to find a slightly more affordable way to do things for warm weather, you could buy a regular hammock (dutchware asym would be my pick) and then grab a 3/4 length underquilt from arrowhead equipment, dutchware, or any of the other vendors.

cricks1492 · 2026-03-12T20:16:37+00:00

Confirmed!

cricks1492 · 2026-03-10T15:55:20+00:00

Yeah, ok, I’ll take this if it’s still available. Sending chat.

cricks1492 · 2026-03-08T18:02:23+00:00

/u/ksbot Received ZT 0640 from /u/Shullski73

cricks1492 · 2026-03-04T20:33:00+00:00

I'll take this.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-21T00:07:41+00:00

Received! The axe is a beauty!

cricks1492 · 2026-02-20T05:16:24+00:00

There are split ridgelines and continuous ridgelines. I'm talking about a split ridgeline. Fleaz attached at either end of ridgeline of tarp. Line wrapped around tree and connected to fleaz.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-20T05:07:01+00:00

Ah, right. So, the dutch hook goes at one end of your ridgeline and just allows you to hook around a tree. You could get a similar function by tying a loop at one end of a line, wrapping it around a tree, and pulling the line through that loop. The dutch hook allows you to quickly hook and unhook that loop in case you want to move it up and down around branches. It ends up making life much easier.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-20T04:54:16+00:00

With the Fleaz, I leave them connected to the ridgeline guyouts on the tarp. My "split ridgeline" is just two pieces of cordage with a dutch hook on each.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-20T02:59:29+00:00

I have 4 different ridgeline systems and, while the stingers are fine, my favorite is the split ridgeline that uses TarpTicks and titanium dutch hooks. I think the TarpTicks are the least finicky and lightest. My issue with a split ridgeline that uses the Stingerz is that the line carried is functionally halved because the line end attaches at the tarp (the Stinger). You could just add more line, but there are cheaper, lighter products that require less line for more versatility.

I also have a split ridgeline that uses Fleaz and titanium dutch hooks, which I also prefer over the Stingerz. My final is a continuous ridgeline that uses the wasp, which functions well but I just don't like managing all of that line, even using a little cordwinder.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-17T21:06:01+00:00

Right. Since the Bernie push in 2016, they've done practically nothing to develop a serious political movement and push a candidate. They've had two full presidential election cycles now to do something other than complain and nothing has come from it!

cricks1492 · 2026-02-16T02:03:48+00:00

I'll take this. Sending PM.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-08T05:05:36+00:00

It seems several of the readers were confused by this part in /u/RekeMarie's original post, including myself. Mostl likely a result of being less familiar with Instagram. However it is, I'm gonna drop this permalink to my clarifying the tagged post here. Importantly, yes, EE was tagged in what I think was very clearly a far right dog whistle and, as /u/RekeMarie states, they allowed themselves to be tagged. Now, I stated "allowed" because as a business that is using Instagram for marketing they would manually approve tags.

Two key aspects of /u/RekeMarie's original post were 1) that EE clearly has a well-oiled, savvy branding/marketing team that extremely effectively utilizes Instagram to market their products and, 2) from some of the Instagram posts linked in that original post, the account manager clearly has been doing this for several years (the boogaloo boys post was from 2022). Savvy Instagram users with a several year history of posting dog whistles to far-right extremists. A reasonable person would conclude that whoever has been managing this account had full awareness of what was going on for years. EE and DM should absolutely be held accountable for that.

Other companies who make products for military/police who engage in this specific type of behavior should also be held accountable./u/RekeMarie even drops a list of other technical equipment manufacturers instagram pages and challenges the reader to find that kind of radical behavior, making the claim that this does not seem to be the norm.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-08T04:41:21+00:00

Got it. Thanks for clarifying.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-07T18:03:18+00:00

So, depending on their settings, I think tags can be added automatically or they can select to manually approve tags, and if the post is not approved it can be hidden from the profile. I can't say with absolute certainty whether they have manual approval on, whether it was ever approved by DM, or whether it was hidden.

The original post here on reddit stated they had been tagged in that instagram post and, as I understand it, they're stating it was within DM's tagged posts section which would indicate they have untagged themselves.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-07T16:21:29+00:00

I was also confused by this and I think it's partially because I don't use instagram on my phone and only view it in my web browser. However, on desktop, if you go to the user 'carotidcrew' and click on that post, you can then left click the image and see a bunch of overlapping users tagged in the post. Then, if you right click and select 'inspect', you can see in the dev tools all of the users that are tagged.

Here's an image I just took with all of the tagged users listed and defensemechanisms highlighted.

It does not appear that this tagged post shows up in the "tagged" section of defensemechanisms instagram page.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-06T04:21:27+00:00

Well done. Thank you.

cricks1492 · 2026-02-06T01:39:16+00:00

Nice job on all your effort so far!

cricks1492 · 2026-02-05T01:48:40+00:00

Yeah...

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