Hopefully yes. I suspect that it'd be fine just to pop the VR in. Might last forever, who knows. Mine would have if the ring hadn't been trashed.

You might do a search because some guys have been successful in just replacing the brushes in the current VR ($3.00 only). I took my VR to the place that rebuilt the alt and they put new brushes in free cuz they were doing the alt anyway.

Don

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