![]() ![]() Must needs one heck of an arm to throw that big ball. I've played mens softball before but I have never seen a 16"softball. If the 'nano' size option is ever implemented it should help things somewhat, at least IMHO. I'd even go so far as to call for 'preform' to replace 'film can' at some point- the former seems to be used in lots of places now while the latter are getting somewhat harder to find since digital photography has taken off. I like to refer to this type of thing as 'size drift'. The part of the guidelines that refer to trade items should just be removed, or modified (something along the lines of nano=BB, micro=small marble, small=golf ball, regular= baseball, large= 16" softball or bigger). I think part of it was the often heard complaint that there was no room in micros for trade items. Over time, as micros became more ubiquitous, and smaller & smaller containers found and used, so it followed with trade items- smaller ones have also been found & used. Modified and specially sized ones can be tho. You could fit a BB into most bison tubes as a trade item- would that make those small too? Could a 'normal' trade item, coin or TB be put into either? No. In addition, today’s lighter preforms are often blown into high strength carbonated soft drink bottles at filling plants. Just because you can fit a very tiny trade item into them does not change the size. I've been advocating the use of preforms since 2004 or so. That all being considered, if it were my cache, I would list it as small. I think GS has slightly adjusted the size definitions over time and maybe the geocaching community is a little slow catching up. I would guess that anyone who has been around for a while would be more inclined to think it should be a micro and not a small. What is small today was micro back in the day and what is micro today hardly existed back in the day. In regards to the logs from people saying that preforms should be micro and not small, I think that is a sign of the times. Apparently a micro is smaller than a film canister, but a large micro can be a little bigger than a film canister. Interestingly, that seems to contradict their description of micro being 'smaller than a film canister'. They describe the pill bottle as a large micro. The pill bottle shown looks shorter than the preform but slightly wider. Scroll down on the knowledgebooks page you linked and look at the section for 'Pill Bottles'. I think an argument can be made for it being a 'large micro' though. By the definitions from the knowledgebooks page, it does look like a soda preform would be a small. ![]()
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