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  On 8/23/2024 at 6:30 AM, oldhippy said:

You need to be careful with those chinese ones some do not line up well and it makes fitting the glass difficult. I wouldn't touch chinese tools with a barge pole. 

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Yes, it's true. Some do not line up very well. Like the one I got from AliExpress 5 years ago. The upper and lower screws do not line up by more than 1.0 mm. I broke several mineral glass crystals before I discovered the problem.

But that does not mean that it's totally useless. I loosened the upper plate and filed the holes to correct for the misalignment and managed to get the screws to line up properly. And it has been working perfectly since.

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