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Old 05-22-2020, 10:19 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by clyde View Post
Looking at the teeth, I can see where you're going. Looking at the saddle, it's hard to see how you get from the shape on the right to the one on the left through machining...but certainly not my area.
I must have not been clear. In short, we are in agreement. I'm not implying they stopped machining it. I'm saying they moved to new, crappy tooling so as to avoid machining altogether. Hence my pointing out that the font is different, pointing to a different tool.
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