FWIW - I bought this mod from Swinks a few years ago (v2, I believe) and it is worth every cent. It's a high quality, well engineered part and looks like it came straight from the WMS. As eBayer's would say, "buy with confidence."

Darn it Jady. I was perfectly happy with my v2 mod purchase but you are making it hard for me to not get in on v3. It looks awesome. Great work so far!

Looking good Swinks. Can't want to see the protos.

Visually, I like the neon tube version better than the bulb version. The neon seems to fit the 50s them a little better. The bulb version looks a little too busy to my eye.

Thanks Jady! Parts ordered.

Just installed my 2.5 upgrade on my 2.0 mod.

Like the original, Swinks has done an amazing job engineering this to make it as stupidly simple as possible. It looks awesome! Thanks for continuing to improve this mod Jady!

The only minor issue I ran in to was with the LED strip from Comet. I bought the purple frosted strip (Comet p/n 10SMD6_3VSTRIPPF). The wired end of the strip had some kind strain relief built in that was about 1/8" - 3/16" long. The wiring did not attach right at the edge of the strip where the very first LED sits. I should have taken a picture if it before I installed everything but I didn't.

Anyway - this unlit piece was the same height as the strip itself, so I had to cut one additional LED off in order for everything to fit up in the Snack Bar sign and to have enough room to run the wires in the pivot slot.

What all that means is the "S" in "Snack Bar" doesn't have an LED directly behind it. It's still lit from the diffused light, but you can see in the picture how the "S" isn't the isn't quite as bright as the rest of the letters sign. This has nothing to do with Jady - I suspect the LED strip Comet supplied has changed from when he originally design this or maybe the frosted strips are different from the non-frosted.

I am pointing this out as a heads up to others who are upgrading. The upgrade still completely rocks and looks really cool...

Randy

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