Are you sure you are not a politician! when one minute you say not a dime (just like taxes and the next you talking charging already )....
you know if we keep buying with others donations we would never make a profit either its when you quit the ink turns color
Oh I figured the year-end wouldn't go off without some smack-down from the Boggie-man.
I think I can uniquely say that I've never sold a machine yet nor plan to. Yea, yea, there's always an exception and that exception would be to those forum members that have expressed interest in a machine and if it turns out that machine is not needed then I'd sell it for cost. That cost being what I paid plus transport. No other costs. So nah!
(spoken like a true politician).
OK, Mainer I will stop here with this discussion , Till next year! no really I have to stop because I will be gone for the Holiday
Have to go look at three vintage machines on the Canada Border can you say "Thiokol"
We know about this mission and have already taken appropriate multi-platform technology tracking measures and have recruited/converted your translator to an agent.
Buy the way we already have scanned some of the parts we used a CMM
(coordinate measuring machine )
No doubt you have...as we've discussed in past. I've used those and NC-milling machines to produce the end-product (not for snowcats when I had my hands in them). You should post those on your website as free downloads given costs have already been covered under prior custom-built work.
Tongue in cheek aside, it should be noted that you've generously posted (for free download from your company site) all the electronic scans of diff manuals where others in the biz would charge for that.
http://www.mn-outdoors.com/PartsDiagrams.htm
it was good enough for the Military
No doubt. I don't think anyone questions the quality of your work... although I'm sure the military paid dearly.
Whether the data capture tool be physical or via laser, the accuracy should be sufficient to exceed cosmetic part replication but meet the threshold of mechanical functionality (ie, a ring & pinion). Either way, the end-result is a digital representation that is as good, if not better, than NOS ... question is putting it out as a free-download (ok, maybe I won't add the $2-$5 on just so I won't be accused of trying to make trillions of dollars from the massive population of buyers for Thiokol 6/TM parts).
Go on...
I dare you to put two files out there for free download without any encryption key...for fabrication-quality data points (that is, properly assembled with intersections for 3-D representation) of Ring & Pinion in a commonly used standard file format (Autocad, etc.) for an OC-15. You know I can't resist...
You may as well beat me to the punch on it.
ps... Once I get it down to a science, I'd be happy to digitize unique parts for folks for free if they so desire... caveat being putting it out into a library for free download. Second caveat being not to send me a box of parts with a 'scan these'... should be as-needed/rare parts obviously.
pss... the ps offer above goes for all machine makes with exception of Krusties given the above would result in historical preservation/life-extension of machines.