| Do yourself a favor: Mike LOVES working on his old stuff.
The paint breakage is from the old internals. The jet of gas from the valve tube is busting a hole in the shell. The newer TPC internals diffuse the jet to the edges of the ball. Old school paint had a tougher shell and could take the blast, the current paint is just too brittle. If you sent it to Mike, and get yourself a complete set of modern internals along with the other stuff you want, Mike will assemble and tune and you'll be way happy.
Nice find, looks like something a teammate owned back a while ago, he "hand stripped" the barrel like that. |