Originally Posted by
lwylie
What I did NOT know was that BF no longer has the machinery to repair the existing stem; rather, they need to replace it with something different. They said the stem wouldn't fold the same way. I got the impression that the new stem would be similar to the Pakit -- removable but not foldable.
I'd say this news pretty much decimates the used value of any unrepaired Hyperfold tikits. Caveat emptor.
So how would a seller prove a tikit had the repair stem? Anybody can paint a red dot.