Black Crow

If you like a good of a laugh, take a look at a YouTube channel called "Scammer Payback" or one called "Tech Support Scams". They wage war on these Indian call centre scammers by hacking into their computers and disrupting their scams. At one point, Jim Browning (not his real name for obvious reasons) even gained access to their CCTV security cameras and set them rolling on YouTube so the world could watch as these fools ply their trade in real time. He finds out what their real names are and calls them up pretending to be a potential victim. You should see the look on their faces when he's talking to them and "accidently" drops their real Indian names. These cowards sh!t themselves instantly. These gutless wonders prey on the feeble minded and elderly and think they can hide behind a computer and telephone. We've probably all had a call from some Indian sounding dude claiming to be from Amazon or PayPal trying it on, I personally get one at least once a fortnight. Both Jim Browning, "Tech Support Scams" and Perogi from "Scammer Payback" have saved thousands of victims from losing hundreds of thousands of dollars all while disrupting, frustrating and humiliating these scum bags. They've had a few of these call centres shut down but by and large it's nearly impossible to get the Indian authorities to act. Soon enough the same cockroaches pop up again in a new location only days later. My guess is, a fair bit of cash goes under the commissioners desk in brown paper bags. Anyway, take a look at what these guys do to these scamming pigs and have a good laugh at their expense. Well worth a YouTube visit.

Black Crow here again. I went and bought a new coil and one of those water proof adaptors so I can change coils on my Excalibur 1000. Does anyone know which pin number the green wire from the Excalibur out to the plug in the adaptor should go to? When I bought the coil, they included detailed instructions on how to cut the old coil wire and prepair it for fitting to the new plug but they failed to include a plug pinout diagram. The new coil i bought, designed specifically for the Excalibur series, uses only 4 wires, red, orange, black and white. I can loosen the plug on the new coil and trace the wiring backwards and match the pins that way, no problem. But that still leaves me wondering which of the two remaining pins the green wire needs to go on. I'm assuming that other coils will require this wire to be attached to a paricular pin (for shielding or something) so as you can imagine, I need to get it on the right one. I better add that I picked up this excal real cheep because the original coil lead had been ripped out from deep inside the coil, so I can't even reference the original coil either. If any of you can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Black Crow

Thanks for this thread guys. I’m currently working on an Excalibur 1000 as a project and thought I might throw in my 2 cents worth. I know this thread is a couple of years old and plenty of people may already know what I'm about to tell, but there is a guy in Ukraine who makes end caps to suit all excals. He goes by DDT, I first found him on YouTube and he has a eBay shop too. He seems to be keeping up with demand despite the troubles they have over there. The interesting thing about his products is that he can make end caps that allow all sorts of mods to the Excalibur e.g., end caps with the fitting ready to take the CTX3030 (underwater) headphones. all you do is plug and play. Anyway, I’m not his advertising agent, so I’ll leave it to you guys to look at what he has to offer. Another problem I have found a way of getting around is removing the two pac epoxy from the inside of the end caps. There are all sorts of advice on drilling out the wires etc. all over the internet but I have found the best and easiest way is to boil the endcaps in a saucepan of hot water for about 5 to 10 mins. Try not to let the acrylic come into direct contact with the bottom of the saucepan. I used a tea strainer to hold mine off the bottom, but I’m sure there’s 100 other methods. The two pac epoxy will become soft and crumbly and you can then just carefully dig it out with a small screwdriver. Clean up with a bit of metho or IPA but don’t put acetone anywhere near the acrylic. It turns it to jelly. Anyway, hope this helps, best of luck, Black Crow