Since I can't sleep I'm gonna tell this story once for the newer folks at gh.
Once upon a time when I was a noob here, there was a bro by the name of mmb, now known as Bro Caps. He had helped out a brother dangwang with a dank Filco mod and I'm like **** maybe I should branch out from these stock blues I have. So I hit him up and he offered to do the mod for me and cover all parts and labour for an octopink clack. Back then clacks sold after market at like $60 so I'm like sure! Getting desoldering job, spring and stem swap, and lube and even an indicator led swap sounded hella worth since I couldn't solder for ****.
Fast forward a bit when it was all done. We were both real excited and he had shipped it out (he covered shipping to me btw) . Unfortunately weeks passed by and nothing came. My Filco got lost in the mail, along with what was supposed to be a prototype bro bot v1.
I can't remember the hassle and details here but I ended up purchasing a used filco on eBay and sent it to him. He redid all the modding and covered the parts AGAIN (and ****ing stickered too, I charge like $20 for that **** alone). This time he made sure that it got to me, and included the legendary sifo's soul v1 + a bunch of other novelty caps for FREE. During the time which I was without my Filco I had decided to learn how to solder myself so this wouldn't have to happen ever again (I think he had given me some tips too initially).
Fast forward a bit we keep in touch and chat on Skype once in a while. He started really getting into the whole bro caps thing and eventually changed his name and what not. I managed to accumulate a bunch of them through the first come first serve sales since I'm good at those. Any time I encountered an issue with a cap it was resolved. He's always taking feedback and ideas to incorporate in his craft.
He also got a clack for me that I had been wanting for ages, for probably about retail price through trading.
Basically bro caps was one of the friendliest people to me when I was new, and a huge reason for why I stuck around gh for so long, the reason why I learned how to solder myself and got into modding boards, why I have most of the novelty caps I have, and a whole bunch of other stuff I can't remember right now. The only thing he didn't do was find my LZ-S but that's another story
I know he can't win his own giveaway so that's why I thought I'd share here.
Oh and trust there's no favouritism, I ask him for stuff all the time and get rejected ;p always fair to everyone!
Rest in peace Filco.
And what eventually made its way to me:
And this sexy ass one off Reaper I got for my birthday
and a ton of other stuff.
