I always thought 74 was Largehat too.
I've never said anything because there was a bit of a previous history between the two of us, which he kept up for quite sometime over on Burnden Aces, with his personal abuse of me.
Never the less internet name calling has never bothered me and his persona as 74 was never abusive in anyway to me (or anyone else on Nuts iirc) that I was content enough to play ignorant of the fact and was happy for him to take an active part in the forum, for he was a very good poster and Nuts was much better with him than without.
I had no doubt that he had a few pops at me from time to time with his attempts to have never ending arguments but mostly I was able to steer clear of such business.
I personally doubt he gives two hoots about my opinion of him and so doubt very much that his leaving the site had anything to do with my comments about his browbeating of Glos resulting in Glos stating that he would stop his participating in that thread because of it - which is not the sort of thing that benefits any forum.
I'm sure he left for his own reasons and I somehow think he may not even be bothered to even return to the forum to read threads such as these but on the off chance he does then I'd like to thank him for his contributions and input into Nuts since we started and wish him well for the future in his real life.
The door is open for him to return if he wants but obviously only he can make that choice.
I hope he does.