Rebuild dilemma

[Walker]

It's bad when you can't decide whether to put your money into rebuilding a CCM Series 5, or a Pre2k Belsales Evolution....

[RPP]

I like to tell myself...

"this is a great problem to have..."

[Socalpumpballer]

Depends on what you mean by rebuild. Like orings? Or complete missing part restorations?

[Walker]

Series 5 -Frozen barrel, tank bonnet frozen in ASA, who knows what else, lots of corrosion, won't know until I try to get it apart.
Evolution - Bare body and frame....

One I guess you could call a restore, the other is a recover...

[DocsMachine]

At least you're starting with a physical object. Half the stuff I want to work on starts with "bandsaw a section of 1x2 aluminum bar stock to length..."



Doc.

[Walker]

One of us is a craftsman who knows what to do with a piece of "1x2 aluminum bar stock", the other is someone who has worked IT for 50 years and would look at it, scratch his head and try to guess what is is used for...

[scottieb]

I'll attempt to sway your opinion. My vote is for the Evolution.

[Walker]

To me, an Actual Evolution consists of both the aesthetics of the milling and annodizing the body, AND the work done to tune the internals and pneumatics to work together. Once you remove all of the internals and pneus you no longer really have an Evolution, but just an interesting Cocker body. A decade, or so, ago you may have had a chance to acquire the actual parts to rebuild the bare kit into an Evo, but now there is not a snowballs chance of doing so, or I will not have the time left in this life to wait for them to resurface. The parts are just not available. They have been lost in the morass of spares that are out there or have been thrown away.....

In 1995 they would not have used a "special" valve for an Evo, they would have hand tuned an existing WGP valve, and resprung it for efficiency. The same with the ram and switch. At some point they developed the Twister kit for a WGP Sledgehammer (try finding one of those). In the late 90s they came out with the Angry frame and switch.....

[scottieb]

Walker that being true, it would make a great candidate for a pump, due to the circumstances. And if it's out and about, someone with those parts may get a chance at bringing it back wholly.

[Jonnydread]

Pre-2k all da way

[Walker]

Roger that.... I love the oldies.....

[WORR13]

pre 2k evo has way more sex appeal

[WORR13]

could resuscitate the ccm to fund the evo. dunk that thing in lube and see what u got

[Walker]

I decided to go with the Evolution... Now I need to start gathering parts....