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  1. Alkaline batteries tend to drop voltage quickly and steeply at first, then level out over the rest of their life.  They also recover voltage when the rest.  Not sure how big a draw the motor is, but you're only running the motor for short durations with breaks in between, so I'd expect them to last quite a while.

  2. On 1/9/2021 at 2:38 PM, NO Dave said:

    Place the base back on the board, and observe the levelness of the prongs. If there is a slight size difference, this will affect the direction that the base will run. 

    Understood.  That's why I asked about an easy way to make sure one cuts both prongs flat and dead even.

  3. I'm 52, and my big brother and his friends were all Packers fans, even though we grew up in New Jersey, so I "inherited" them as my team.  My first real football memory, though, is the '72 Dolphins--I shudder to think how my life would've been different had I started following Miami. 

    We didn't get many Packers games on TV on the east coast in the 70s and 80s, but I went to grad school in Indiana in 1991.  The Colts were always blacked out (Jeff George era), so we got NFC central games almost every week. 

    I was worried when Majkowski went down (his was the first jersey I got, and I still have it), but by the end of that fateful game, I was convinced the wild kid with the funny name would take the Packers to the Super Bowl.  Next year we signed Reggie White, and the rest, as they say, is history.

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  4. I'm not arguing, either.

    I was going to build a 2'x4' field, but when I was doing the pricing, I was really close to the $300 of the Ultimate, so I just went with that.

    Am I happy with it out of the box for the price?  Yes.  It met my expectations, and playing on the big field is fantastic.  I could never go back to a 500-sized game, and I'll only use my mid-size (Sears Super Bowl 635) field for testing bases.

    Could it be better?  Of course, but can't every product?

    Everything about it is good or great as is--there's nothing "wrong" with it.  And I enjoy making mods to things I have, so I don't feel like I "sunk" money and labor into the support, nor would I call what I did "fixing," as it wasn't broken.

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  5. I think the ultimate field is pretty d@mn good out of the box, and the dip in the middle is slight.  It's not like I am fixing an issue--more like making an incremental improvement.

    A guy I know had the plastic (Speed Turf?) 620-sized board.  I thought that one was disappointing.  I haven't seen a metal one in that size of the new style, so I can't compare anything to that.  But my Miggle Super Bowl field was pretty terrible.  The sheet metal was so thin just setting up players made everything move on it.  (Also, the 'speckle' grass pattern is way too busy.)  The ultimate field is far superior to the Miggle, so if the 9092 is made in the same way as the ultimate, I imagine it too is a nice field for playing.  Not perfect, of course.

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  6. Got the Packers decal’d. 
     

    Used the actual numbers from the NFL champion 1936 squad. Heber, Hinkle, Hutson, Blood McNally. Numbering conventions were not quite in place, so they seem a little weird but cest la vie. 
     

    I also added a gloss coat to the navy so it matched the rest of the paint. When the decals are dry I’ll seal them with a little more of the gloss clear. 

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