Re: [SilverStreak]Hinge Project Update

["Carolyn Frederick" <hown@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 ----- 
From: "Eddie" <Eddie@Huffstetter.com>
To: <sslist@tompatterson.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [SilverStreak]Hinge Project Update


> 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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