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Old 05-21-2020, 10:17 AM   #15
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Really hard to tell, but those almost look like they were redesigned to be manufactured with a different process. The cradle looks different.
Still hard to tell, but it almost looks like the one on the left is a casting () or forging (I hope!) that went through a secondary machining operation to clean up the geometry. The one on the right looks like it is skipping that secondary machining. You need much bigger radii if you don't machine it, so the geometry is crap now. The aspect ratio of that "O" is different, I believe.

Just a possibility.
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