Whelp my heat gun died right when I went to press my 462 cases together - one side at 300* and the other out of the freezer...
New heater on order, as well as some various m5 bolts to use the full threads of the case to pull itself together.
In the meantime, I restored an 026 red lever today, which turned out great! Hard to beat the feeling when a saw fires right up after a disassembly. The original piston still had full machining marks across, and didn't even have much carbon on the roof.
I even had time to build a hillbilly bark box for it. It'll probably get some black paint to hide the low-tier work. hah
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