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I used a jigsaw to do most of the outside cutting of the TVPs and a Dremel for the cutouts. The cutouts are difficult. Those 4 cutouts in the pic took around 4 hrs including marking them up.

I wouldn't say the work is overly difficult, epecially if you have some metalwork skills\experience, which unfortunately i don't. There has been a lot of planning and time gone into the build though. A lot of my weekends over the last 6 months have been eaten up.

For someone looking to build there own I would urge them to learn some CAD, draw them up and pay to get them cut. For the amount of time you will spend making them manually (and cost of tools) it will be worth it and the accuracy will be much better than you will likely be able to manage yourself. If your doing something really custom though like mine the protoyping with the MDF board would probably still be useful as its very cheap and easy to work with.

There are a few minor things i would like to change on the TVPs so i have actually started a CAD drawing for them so that in the future i can get someone to cut them for me without having to remake them from scratch.

Got the replacement adjustment ring for the slipper on Mon so i will get to do some more test driving on the weekend, this time with the lower mod 0.8 gearing. Looking forward to it.