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MetroMPG · 10-27-2009, 09:39 PM

After a lengthy delay...

I'll know more this week about the "old school" machinist's experimenting on the 5th gear cog.

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Found out today -- too late as it turns out -- that one of the guys I sometimes bike with is in his last semester at college in a precision machinist course. I asked if he had access to a wire EDM machine, and he does. But he won't have any extra time before the end of his course to take on any new projects.

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