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I've long used balancestaffs.com as a reference when making staffs, and have bought from them as well. As of 3-4 days the site is totally down, anyone know anything? It was a great resource and easy to use site- and easy to order (and good pricing!). I hope it's not gone forever- yet another supplier! I actually ordered a staff maybe 2 weeks ago (got it in just a few days), no issue whatsoever.

 

balancestaffs.com

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 I might have the owners phone number, will look up list of my contacts, called him last year. 

I don't think he has shut down his business, likely to be back with new stuff. 

 

 

 

 

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Somebody else made a reference to this a couple weeks ago and yes it's sad the site is down because it made for a wonderful reference. Fortunately there are other reference materials out there but just not as handy as this one.

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On 10/2/2023 at 10:45 PM, JohnR725 said:

it seems to be up and running again

I still unfortunately get no response but surely worth trying now and then.

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5 hours ago, VWatchie said:

I still unfortunately get no response but surely worth trying now and then.

It would be nice to figure out how to clone the site for safekeeping just in case. Then unfortunately you're right it just times out as there's nothing there. But it was there the other day which was weird maybe it will come back again hopefully.

This is one of the biggest problems with the Internet the convenience of stuff at the tip your fingers that can disappear instantaneously and never come back ever again.

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55 minutes ago, JohnR725 said:

It would be nice to figure out how to clone the site for safekeeping just in case. Then unfortunately you're right it just times out as there's nothing there. But it was there the other day which was weird maybe it will come back again hopefully.

This is one of the biggest problems with the Internet the convenience of stuff at the tip your fingers that can disappear instantaneously and never come back ever again.

Try windingstems.com that is working for me, you can access both staffs and stems from there .

https://www.windingstems.com/a-michel.php

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5 hours ago, JohnR725 said:

It would be nice to figure out how to clone the site for safekeeping just in case. Then unfortunately you're right it just times out as there's nothing there. But it was there the other day which was weird maybe it will come back again hopefully.

I'll try to look at writing a scraper to get all the data this weekend (assuming the sites are up). I did the same with the Ranfft site a few weeks back when it was looking like it was going to disappear soon.

I won't do anything with the data after scraping, just keep it in case these sites ever disappear for good as I share your concern about data on the internet, the amount of amazing resources that have been lost is a shame.

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Decided to try again stems pops up really fast. The staff one was a little bit slower but it just now came up. Maybe they're just on a really slow connection or a connection that overloads easily?

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