Lol
Okay, well, how about this...you can choose to read what somebody posts or not, and what somebody posts may be for you, for anybody else reading the thread, or maybe because the poster wants to brain dump info you don’t really care about. You asked the questions, feel free to pick and choose what you read or don’t read. It’s a public forum, somebody else might want the info down the road. In the meantime I’ll continue posting what I want to post. And I do all my posting from a mobile device, and do most of my troubleshooting/schematic analysis from that mobile device, so I’m not sure what your point is about posting off your phone.
And if you were looking for a “static guides don’t cause friction” affirmation, hopefully that’s not the message you got from my post. They DO. That’s where the scrape flutter comes from. My point was actually to try and help you understand that just because your Fostex machine has static guides doesn’t mean it’s “cheap”...don’t want you to sell your machine short.