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4 minutes ago, lemniscate said:@Shelby ! Awesome! I *might* just use one of my own stock of zip ties to try a self repair. I wanna play with this VP215!
I think you would be just fine doing your own repair. It seems to me that it's just a stabilizer, hold in place, just in case type of thing. It's screwed into the bottom. I say go for it 
Or rather, I should say, I would have gone for it if mine had the broken tie.
2 minutes ago, lemniscate said:@Shelby ! Awesome! I *might* just use one of my own stock of zip ties to try a self repair. I wanna play with this VP215!
I think you would be just fine doing your own repair. It seems to me that it's just a stabilizer, hold in place, just in case type of thing. It's screwed into the bottom. I say go for it
