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                        Badger 150

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                        gatormark91
                        • Member since
                          August 2005
                        Badger 150
                        Posted by gatormark91 on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:07 PM
                        Hi all!

                        I bought a new-in-the-wood-box Badger 150 off eBay, the one with the three tips included. 

                        The tips are labelled with their sizes ('fine', 'large', and the unmarked one obviously being 'medium'), but the needles have no markings on them.  How can I tell which needle goes with the right tip?  Does, for example, the tip labelled 'fine' get the thinnest, sharpest needle, or the think, blunter one?  The instructions are pretty useless, don't describe this at all....

                        Thanks!
                        Mark
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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 6:53 PM
                        The thinnest, sharpest taper needle is the fine one.
                        The thick, short-tapered one is the heavy one. Wink [;)]

                        Mike

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:15 PM

                        You can also tell by the grooves in the end of the needle. One groove is fine ( XF ), two grooves are medium ( IL ), and three grooves are heavy ( HD ). Helps alot when you buy replacements that are not labeled correctly, i.e. model shows, swap meets, ebay, etc.

                         

                        E

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                        gatormark91
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                          August 2005
                        Posted by gatormark91 on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:26 PM
                        Thanks!
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