Hi Paul;
       I strongly believe we are being "Penny conscious
and HP foolish" by replacing the split ring with the
sheetmetal band.
Let me explain.......While I know the band will work,
and is a great idea, it's still not a BETTER replacement
for the original split collar. Soooo-why are we doing it
for? To save a couple of dollars?.....That's foolish
since you will definitely be spending much more effort
(HP/Time) in bending it and you still will be purchasing
the blank.

Also....there are a lot of slots on both sides of the
circumference looking for a crack to happen, especially
since the outermost screws could be tightened
((Torqued)) un-evenly,throw in some bivration and voila,
the perfect scenario for a crack(s) to begin.

"NO SIR not for me, not even at half the price. "NOT
WORTH IT"!! After all, we are individually purchasing a
few only.

However...... for those young "Mustangs" out there with
excess HP/Time and suffer from the "Fundsalow" desease,
I understand, so I hardly recommend you polish out all
those radiuses in the knotches and get together as a
herd and make a small, simple, one shot bending die
(will take less time than modifying pliers and yield
consistent tabs)

By the way Paul I happen to be one of those who hates,
with a passion worm band clamps.
So I'll be using this band design (sans the knotches of
course) to clamp the split collar together. Thanks for
the idea.
                                  Butch Diaz Sr.

It is a matter of getting the price down and the volume up so
we can afford to have them at all. If we can't make 100 or
so we cannot afford the NC lathe programming cost.

Perhaps the wiggins couplings is premature. In a few years
when water cooled rotaries are more popular people
will pay more for them and products like this would be more
economically viable. In the mean time it is up to us
few forward looking people to get em flying.

Paul Lamar

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