Hi Greg Ah.. too bad about the parts. Could have been handy if for no other reason then for reference. I always offer to box and include old parts with delivery of action jobs myself... sometimes customers think its cool to find something (or at least imagine they shall find something) to do with old hammers etc. Sorting it out however will be as you say a good learning experience as far as you can afford to take it... or as far as they are willing to pay. And as you say, any significant improvement you make that is cost effective for them is a boon. Both for you and them. Sometimes these are golden opportunities. As for my last post. When I have time I like sitting down and ponsking out such things. That too is a good learning experience. I'm not a mathematician or physics major and I dont get enough practice at it do be able to just whip them out there. So when the opportunity presents itself :) I used to do more of this when I was sorting out how Stanwood managed to arrive at his formula. Phil Ford and Marc Davidson and I exchanged quite a bit of stuff trying to find a way of deriving the standard Overs type of action ratio measurement from any given set of Stanwood numbers. The two ratios are different quantities... tho they are related. Anyways... when you arrive at your solution it would be cool to hear what you came up with. Cheers RicB Ric, First, thank you for your interest in my customers dilemma. I at least recognize that it's their problem and not mine. That's a good thing. Secondly you have on a few occasions mentioned the desire to obtain the old parts. Oh that that were possible. They and the technician who did the previous work are gone I'm told. It will take me a while to digest what you've written but the short version is that I'm aware that there will be some complications however, 1) it will be a good learning experience 2) I'm not likely to proceeed further than what they are willing to pay for and 3) I have no choice but to proceed in some fashion to make this .... less bad. Thanks again for the efforts.
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