Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
So you've reached that age where pop ups just aren't happening any more?
I'm not saying that popups are a bad idea. They work just fine in many applications. I was pushed into cutting the squish bands by guys that wanted me to build them a saw without a popup. Some people just do not want a custom made piston in their engine.
After doing hundreds of saws with a cut squish band.......using a popup piston just seems like going backward rather than forward.