FYI. My acrylic plates don’t require the metal shell. I just designed around it but they go on the 2 or 4 slot regardless. But of course my plastic plates are heavy too.
As for the AES system shell, I thought about trying to make a repro. But I lost the bid on a dead system that had a nice shell. Now if someone has a nice cheap shell I could buy to do some tests I’m all ears. [emoji1]