Nice work there Erik
Onething I never said was not to do such a mod, and you've shown that it can be done. You've mentioned all my concerns about undertaking such a mod to such a scope. The action is improved, but the balance situation is the same. There's the trade-off. The scopes' out of the factory are made to work in a certain way. You had to do significant further changes by adding a counterweight system to make the scope behave. If you hadn't, there is no way the scope would have behaved itself with the tensioning systems they come with. This is hidden trap of such a mod
This is why I said it's better to do the little improvements first before looking to do major changes. These touch-ups are a whole lot easier to do, and no need for surgery!
Then, if still not happy, out can come the hammer and saw...
I'm happy to supply these materials. Why wouldn't I? But I would be disingenuous to not offer these solutions first and save you time, money and headaches. And if I didn't, and the scope doesn't perform as you expected, it somehow becomes my fault...