ztyper wrote:

As much as the lines of the SM-9 are easy on the eyes, I have a thing for curves... If I could put the mechanics of the SM-9 into the body of an SM-3, it would be a perfect match.

Ha, Richard Polt has done that.  There is a picture in his book and I just searched and found a little bit about it online.  He calls it the Twolympia, and it's an SM9 in an SM3 body.  In the book he says it was a very tight fit and required some modifications to get it all to work out.

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