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Hey everybody, this is my first post. I've read quite a bit through the other ones over the past couple years, almost every time I asked google a question it led me to a post on MD. I did my apprenticeship back in San Jose California, I do most of the B&G here at my new shop in Texas. I'm really worried about my long stroke liner, if I could replace it I would, but I can't seem to find anything like it, and I can't by a replacement because it's an antique (actually bought it from an antiques dealer for 100$). It's an American made technical sharps, all 8/32, 1 5/8" from the bottom of the coils to the bottom of the a-bar, all iron, original 12 wrap 1 1/4" coils (yeah it's a 12 I know it's weird for a soft liner but they are really old) with a 1/8" yoke. It runs perfectly loaded at around 5.5 volts. I'm mostly using my Ted Bertling mid stroke, but it's quite a bit faster than my liking. Sometimes I use my Time Machine Flatline, but I like using smaller groupings (tight 3, 3, tight 5 and tight 7 bugpin) and nothing seems to be as slow, long, consistent and soft as the tech sharps. I don't mind spending the money to buy a new machine or 2, but I don't want to spend a million dollars trying out 50 different kinds. Does anybody have any recommendations for a heavy weight small grouping liner? Right now I'm looking at borg, pulse, and pirat, but they don't seem to have the weight I'm used to, and I'm worried they will run a little faster than I like. I've tried a soba pilot, I liked that one quite a bit. I may go with that if I can't find anything closer to what I already have.