I spent a couple of hours at Welder Guy's shop yesterday. Other than the loss of most of a knuckle to a grinder (his, not mine) things went well.

He had made a couple of manufacturability changes to the design & it still fits behind the cladding. He'll be finishing up the first 2 copies this week so that I can do the install on vt_mav's this coming Sunday. We'll take lotsa pix so that I can re-write the installation instructions for it.

We are going to start out with the price set at $260 (plus shipping) until he cranks out a few & then revisit to make sure that Ron isn't operating at a loss.

We've decided that we are not going to include the clevis mount in the basic design but include it as an option. That option will probably cost $30 but I'll wait to lock that in until we fab up a couple.

I'm going to keep this thread for technical issues and start a new thread for queue'ing purchases.

Next update will be 26 Mar after we get the first installed.

Tom