benches

David M. Porritt dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu
Tue Mar 6 18:50 MST 2001


Richard:

We bought 7 of these last year and so far they are holding up pretty well.  They are not nearly as stout as the Jansens but they seem OK so far.  I wonder what they'll be like in 10 years.

dave

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On 3/6/01 at 1:52 PM Richard West wrote:

>David
>
>I would be interested, especially if the price was right.  I just bought a
>few adjustible benches from Steigerman Benchworld (Seattle).  They were
>$160, look pretty good and have a scissors type mechanism, but much
>differently engineered that the Jansen scissors mechanism.  I don't know
>how well they'll hold up.  Has anyone had experience with these benches
>and how they have stood the test of time?  The price certainly wasn't bad.
>
>Richard West, University of Nebraska
>
>David Forman wrote:
>
>> How many of you out there would be interested in such a bench? We are
>> going
>> to be purchasing a bunch of benches in the near future and I would sure
>> like
>> to be able to get benches that will last longer and be easier to
>> maintain. I
>> hate dealing with benches, so anything that will make my life easier in
>> that
>> arena is attractive to me.
>>
>> Another YES. A bench like that would be very useful, but as others have
>> said, cost needs to be reasonable.
>> Dave Forman
>> Westminster Choir College Of Rider University




David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275



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