The Silver Streak E-mail ListArchive Files[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [SilverStreak]Hinge Project Update
When you find out the cost, please put in the subject line final cost of hinges or something like that. I must admit I do not read every email and I don't want to miss it. Thanks Carolyn Frederick ----- Original Message ----- > Bryan, > > I agree with you. Also we've talked the hinge thing to death for years. > This company makes hinges. That's all they do! They think they can make > from viewing all the pictures including Tom's link. Now they will have a > brand new hinge! We will soon know. The price will be doable and not more > than $300 per trailer for something that will outlast even the younger > generations. > > You and Ralph did what you had to and that's good. Like me, you want to > use your trailer. Your new hinges will fail again if the trailer is > "roaded". If the trailer sits, it won't fail as quickly, but will wear and > sag. This either will or will not be a one-time shot for a great product > solving a real need. I have a need. My trailers are worth at least $300 > each to me to be useable and not loose my pristine doors. Look at what it > cost Ralph to repair his door when it came loose! Look at what you had to > do on your own. > > That's not right. We had to learn from your successes. The total purpose > of this list is sharing a common interest and helping one another. Without > the list we are all repetitiously doing the same things over and over. > What a loss and waste of individuals time and energy. This list works! > > If they can make them, I'm buying them. I cannot make six hinges for less > than the probable price. The materials are expensive. The work is hard. > The material is very hard to drill. Hand making each piece exactly is very > hard to keep machine-perfect. I don't want to make my own. I want better. > > This company will stamp out mirror image duplicates. They will fit. The > door will align perfectly. That is what I want and hope for. It may only > be me buying, but it will be at least me. This won't happen again without > a sample. They will not keep the pattern. Without Ralph, Scott, and > Curtis, this project would just be something individuals will repeatedly > suffer thru and we will endlessly talk. I won't ever again ask Ralph for > such a generous gift he has given in providing us a perfect new unused > pattern to a maker. > > This week we will know a yes or no, exact price and details. I will > report. This company is fast. They will want an answer. I will ask for a > count and place the run order. By Friday or Monday at the latest people > will have to make a final decision. I'm going to place an order! > > It's a one-time shot. Use it or loose it. After that we can look at was > once done in June 2008 in the archives of Tom's site and say, "Oh, I wish > a had a hinge". > > -Eddie- > Houston, TX
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