Just catching up with this Lynn, great test and a reasonable assessment I'd say.

I had a Ranger 78 a few years ago and, while I broadly liked it, one thing that did bother me was the OHO 'hole' seemed to get right in the way when I was sawing with it. So much so in fact, that when I got a Vic to replace it I made sure that I got a non-OHO version so as to make sure I wouldn't have a similar problem.