well i'm sorry for my negativity, but this message to me speaks "we're in for a new full mini evac" right until everything functions flawlessly. LT, are you really sure the past failures were not by design? I mean the slide mechanism can't be THAT complicated, that it can not conceivably be made to work perhaps on 2nd try, not 8th. That said, the tests do show positive progress, so i'm sure we'll get there one day