Diminished activity on LugerForum?

[davidkachel]

Guys, is it just me or has activity here died down considerably over the last several months?

[Ron Smith]

[John Sabato]

I haven't been following the post numbers, but I can tell you what isn't slowing down and that is the number of registered members. We continue to add about 100 or more registrations every month. If you hover over the name of the latest new member at the top of the main forums page, and look at the status bar at the bottom of the window, it will show you the number issued to that member. Monitor that for a couple of months and the way it adds up will surprise you. We will soon surpass 6000 registrations.

[Ron Smith]

David & Boos,

My opinion it's that there really haven't been any barn burning posts lately. Most of them just people asking for advice and wanting parts. It seems as though it goes in cycles. We're just on a down turn right now.

OR....The Mother Ship landed and took everyone to Micheal Jackson's Neverland Ranch!!!

[Roadkill]

There are firearm discussion forums and there are firearm technical forums; this is the latter. Conversation is direct, relevant, and specific to the subject of Lugers. Not a lot of irrelevant banter going on here. The information previously recorded is available for research so many of the answers can be located without posting on one of the forums.

[Ron Smith]

Hi rk

"There are firearm discussion forums and there are firearm technical forums; this is the latter."

That's a fact. I have visited numerous other forums. Several firearms related, Militaria, knife and Vehicle forums.

For the most part, all they do is grab A$$ around , curse and flame each other basically like a bunch of spoiled college boys looking for attention and demonstrating their disrespect and disregard for others .

By far the 3 most sophisticated, intelligent and well run forums that I have visited. Where the members treat each other with respect. Are The Luger Forum, Jan Still's Forum and the P.38 &PP/PPK forum. Not necessarily in that order.

As I have said before, I visit them to learn, get expert advice from all aspects, and to teach the new members what I have learned, or help them in finding the correct answer. I should have been a teacher (hate kids) of some type. I love to see and to show new things and study the past.

I'm comfortable on each of the 3 forums.

Sorry for the speil...

Ron

[John Sabato]

No spiel Ron... just fact. I love educating young (and old) new Luger enthusiasts... it is even better than the mind stimulating conversation and sometimes educated speculation on the history of the technical marvel of engineering, manufacture and use of a pistol design that is over 100 years old and is virtually timeless... by documenting these discussions we are making history of our own of sorts... I think that the facts and databases that have been compiled since the inception of this forum, not to mention the international cooperation and friendships that have been formed are unprecedented. I am proud to be a part of all three of these forums.

[Roadkill]

Then there are exceptions............

[Navy]

RK,

Long time no see...welcome back!

Tom A

[Vlim]

I have to admit, I've been busy doing different things as well.

There's several book projects, one of which is going a bit slowly saleswise(the 'Moderne Gewehrfabrikation' reprint). A visit with several authors to Germany is being planned at the moment and I got the chance to take over the 9x19, 7.63 Mauser and 7.65 Para ammunition part of a collection, which also needs some time to sort out.

In between all of that, I'm trying to weld a 1980 Mercedes-Benz back to civilisation again

[Vlim]

28 years of Dutch rain and de-icing salt in the winter did their job pretty well. I must say, most problems were found along the edges. No serious structural damage.

[Ron Smith]

Originally posted by tacfoley
Talking about irrelevant banter and bandwidth waste, I'm in the middle of rebuilding our little train layout in the backyard, add that to my habit of not posting on anything that I know very little about, and that will explain my particular absence.

Back to the spiking........

tac

Aw, we just wrote it off to your being a cranky old curmudgeon. :icon107:

[Vlim]

Tac,

It's a US-Market 300SD (W126) that never made it to the USA. The license plate starts with my initials, and since we don't get to choose license plate numbers over here, I just have to keep it

904 Dark Blue with tan leather trim, electric seat adjustment and the lousy MB Airco.

[the gunman]

Hi Gerben is that the one I had the ride in.

Regards Richie

[Vlim]

Tac,

The R107 and the W126 shared an awful lot of details and the W126 was designed to follow the design pattern which started in the R107, so they share a lot of of details. They were produced side-by-side for almost a decade.

@Richie: Nope, that was the follow-up, the W140 S-Class, an S350 Turbodiesel from 1993. Great cars, bad engines A pity that those cars have become too expensive to run on a daily basis. 150 Euros a month in taxes alone was a bit too much. The one above is exempted from road taxes because of it's age (25+ years old), so it became more economical to run. (our liter price is your gallon price x 2

[alvin]

Busy reading "Central Power Pistols"...... one downside of this book..... it inspired me to acquire another 9m/m. I had thought I would not acquire any of those anymore, but I could not hold it after reading that book

One C/M and one C/J now. Both have scooped magazine followers.

Inspection is fun:


Assembled back:


Brotherhood:

[the gunman]

Very nice "broomie's" Alvin

[John Sabato]

Roadkill... where Have you been? It is not in your nature to be gone for so long... you must be part of the diminished activity!

[laoshi75]

Hi Gerben, many years ago I had a Mercedes 230 SL, fantastic car..
here is my roadster-cabriolet now, funny in Paris..

[John Sabato]

Christian,

Isn't "Citro�«n" the French word for Lemon?

(sorry, I just couldn't resist...)

How many Miles per gallon or kilometers per liter do you get with your car?