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The ProShaper Comet! We all know that creative people are a unique breed, Wray is no different. Wray has always wanted a boat ever since he stopped working at his Grandfathers shop. So now we have to see how much work needs to be done to get it ready for the lake.
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hi it's ray from pro shaper sheet metal
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guess what we swerved into something new
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this is a 1966 century resorter i think
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it's a
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19 footer and it has a 327
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amc motor in it i believe it's called
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the gray marine motor
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and for the first 19 years of my life i
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lived on lakewood sigmund in shrewsbury
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massachusetts
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and we were right on the water we had a
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woth we had boats and everything
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and my grandfather lived right next door
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and he started the marina called
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billings mariner in 1946
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so he was there from 46 to 1970
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he was a chris craft dealer an upward
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motor deal at thompson lap straight
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boats
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and crest liners and later mfg
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fiberglass boats
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so boats are in my blood and i haven't
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had a boat since i was like 19.
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and i had a hankering for a boat and
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this boat just popped out of nowhere
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and i said i gotta have it what's the
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story with this boat
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it's been sitting for 20 years this wood
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is from 1966 to
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19 20 20 that we're in now that's 50
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something years
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and the wood above the water line
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usually lasts pretty good it was covered
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for a while but it's been uncovered for
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quite a bit of time
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so when we went to look at the boat the
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bottom
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uh has been severely rotted it's got dry
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rot
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and probably wet rot or whatever and we
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put the boat on the trailer was up on
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stands
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the trailer was poking holes right
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through the bottom
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so the question is how bad is this boat
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we don't really know yet
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i'm willing to take the challenge of
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putting a bottom in it
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i have experience doing that for my
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working at my grandfather's
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he also was in the restoration business
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i forgot to mention that in 1960 he
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started restoring cars
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so i went to work from in 63
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and did boat both boats and cars so
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that's where my experience comes from
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and this is in my blood and
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the question is is it worth restoring or
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is it worth getting
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workable again so we got to see what the
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motor is
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the condition of the motor so we're
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going to pull it around to the front of
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the shop
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and we're going to try to start it see
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if it's frozen
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the motor could be frozen the motor if
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it was last
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put in the water and the plugs weren't
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taken out the water plugs
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the block could be cracked because the
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water would have been in the block over
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the winter and it cracked the block
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the cylinders could be all rusted up and
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it could be frozen so we
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we're going to determine that and
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that'll be the next little segment we do
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and then after we determine if the motor
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is good or not
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and hopefully it will start then we're
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going to pull the floorboards up and get
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a really good look at the internals of
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the bottom
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all right a good indicator that we have
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some trouble is when you can put your
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hand
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into the boat like this above the water
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line so
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there was also some stands it was
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sitting on a stand and you can see the
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line here
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has a little slight deviation so
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this is pretty bad the main strength of
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the boat
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are two strong uh
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frame members that go all the way up and
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carry the load at the bottom and the
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and the mo fred what are you doing
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[Laughter]
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that's jack's father fred what are you
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doing with the gas
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he thinks we're gonna make a video with
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three million hits with
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burning the boat no we're gonna make a
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pro
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get the gas out of here we got we got a
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gas light in that fire it's like a table
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of candles
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no no no fred please leave leave
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ah
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right that thing moves yeah yeah it's
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good sure
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yeah i'm good
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you move like a 70 year old guy all
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right
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that's the first time i've been in the
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boat awesome
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and
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we're okay if we go up the creek
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we got a paddle it's a little weak but
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we have a battle and
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that's some of the bottom of the boat
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right there
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that's part of the trine that broke off
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when we put it on the trailer
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the little spray rail on the side of the
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boat
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that'll have to be remade but
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now we'll expose the motor here
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maybe fred can help out and we'll take
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this cover off
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oh i'm going through the floorboards
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but right through the floorboard no no
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no i didn't want to put it there i want
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to i want to set it down on the ground
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why because i got to get it out of the
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way we got you're going to get down off
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the off the boat
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why can't we just leave this no i want
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to take it right off
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taking the cover off okay you got to get
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out there i'm going to hand it to you
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i'll help you we'll both
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okay all right
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get a little more to me a little more to
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me
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there you go there's nothing left of
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this thing right
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yeah the floorboard's riding
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i got it i still like my
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idea better what's that light it drag it
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down the street
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video
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so the motor was uh pretty well infested
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with mice there was all kinds of acons
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and mice
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nesting so we got some air pressure
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blew it all out pretty good
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now most of that debris went around the
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motor so now we're going to vacuum that
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up uh what i see at the bottom so far
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the main structure it doesn't look too
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bad but
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i'll always withhold judgment until we
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get the floorboards all up we'll be
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taking
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probably these trim pieces off
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and we'll probably take this fiberglass
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cap off
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and really get a good look at all the
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interior parts but first thing we got to
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do
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is see if the motor is free and there's
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a really good access point right here
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that i can put a screwdriver on the on
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the ring gear
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and see if we can turn the motor
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so here we go oh look at that
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it's free it's turning over
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so the battery terminals we found out
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there right there
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i've got a fresh 12 volt battery we'll
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probably take the plugs out
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squirt some fog oil in it turn it over a
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bunch
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let that oil get in the cylinders and uh
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i don't know if we got enough light
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today to get it fired up
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but we'll also investigate to see
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whether the drain plugs have been pulled
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on the side of the block they're usually
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down back here but i want to get it all
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cleaned up before i
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get down there and take a look so the
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next order of business is getting this
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rug out of the way and pulling these
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floorboards up
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and uh we're gonna be running out of
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light so
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tomorrow we'll get it started
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so that'll be i think for tonight
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it's racheline from pro shaper sheet
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metal the boat
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