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Originally Posted by shockwaveriderz

thanks Roy.

I'll have to take a closer look at that youtube video. SO in essence it was a MABEL like machine with a rotary index table with multiple stations? And I was aware the Coasters were gang-pressed. And I was also aware of the calibration problem with the gang-press.
Can I assume the Mini-Max BP motors were gang-pressed? and not made on a MABEL like machine?

That's what I recall, that the Mini-Maxes were gang pressed. They figured out the problems with the gang press during the initial Mini-Max runs.

I also recall someone (Ed, Vern?) saying that when Damon had the Centuri machines shipped to Penrose, they wanted to incorporate them into Estes' system but could not, so they were scrapped, so they must've been fundamentally different in some way. Dave DelVecchio probably knows.