Thanks , I ' ll look into a finding a decent local distributor , as I ' m not in the states , freight alone would probably be somewhere around the cost of a decent new blade if I sent it to RocTraitor or ordered from a US company . I ' ll just save this old blade as a novelty since it seems pretty old . <| sep |> You know , I disagree with him substantially on a few issues , but I REALLY wish he ' d have run . The two choices we wound up with were pure garbage . and I hesitate saying that because it gives garbage a bad name . but this guy I could have gotten behind because issues aside , I ' ve always thought he was a genuinely good person whose motives I would never have questioned even if I was arguing strongly against his viewpoint . At this point , that ' s about the only qualification that should matter since nothing else seems to .