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Long overdue thanks from me, Dave

Hi folks Long overdue update on this project (wow, 1.5+ years)... Long story short, the cosmetics took a huge time to crack and much more work than expected. The mechanics were the easy part in the end :mrgreen: And some life events came in between, which didn't help :lol: First, a huge thanks to Do...

Then it needed to become black... Nylon dye works really really well actually. https://zupimages.net/up/22/05/e82n.jpg I love Novak's legendary orange, but Tony Neisinger started it ~40 years ago so please blame it on him rather than me :lol: To note: the black reveals a LOT of the imperfections on ...

not bad a result, vinyle, actually....

Wow thanks for getting back to this one, just went through all of it from the start. What a phenomenal build !! Digging the black Novak with custom decal 8) Thank you Sir for the kind comment, glad you like it. In the end, this yielded that crazy sight: https://zupimages.net/up/22/07/dlfg.jpg Doug ...

Second link is broken?

Bravo for the new family member

there was a significant structural design difference between the CRF design and the Checkpoint (that the reedy is likely based on) : in the CRF, the brushes are angled 45degrees... this was the enabler for lesser comm/brush wear because it miminized brush bounce. (the V2 design ran cooler as the hea...