I just got off the phone and finished talking with Roy Laing Flores of MR3
Golf. He now has about 75 pieces of spare parts of each of the upper and lower
jaws plus the alignment tee/tongue for the Scotland Loft & Lie machine. He was
extremely helpful and is shipping me some replacement parts today.
I clipped a portion of his email response to me dated Feb. 18 and is posted
below including pricing and contact information.
Lower Jaw $30.00
Upper jaw $30.00
Face aligment guide ?? that is why I need to talk to you
Tks
Roy Laing Flores
R Laing Mfg. Inc.
210-653-0222
210-599-8980 Fax
rlaing...@satx.rr.com
Hope this helps people that are also looking for spare parts for the Scotland
L&L machine.
Regards,
Frank Hann
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Hann
To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com
Cc: mr3golfdesi...@satx.rr.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Scotland L&L
I too am looking for spare parts for my Scotland L&L machine. I was looking
for the lower jaw which is more critical but also wanted the upper jaw. My
unit is one of the first machines, it is called "The Master" by Scotland Golf.
It even has the company telephone engraved and city of manufacture, (Dallas,
Tex) when it was fabricated. I have talked with Roy Flores of MR3 via
telephone and he was very helpful & supportive. He was going to try to get
some more lower jaws manufactured but I haven't been able to get any response
about him selling me the parts. That was around November 2008. I have sent
quite a few emails to Roy since then but have not had any response back about
spare parts.
I tried to use the Golf Mechanix spare parts but they didn't properly fit my
machine. Golf Mechanix used to list spare parts for Scotlands on their
website. I took a chance on getting spare parts using replacement parts from
their model they make for Golfsmith that is based upon the Scotland design. It
didn't work, too many dimensions and hole layouts/diameters differed from my
machine. That was $90 down the drain since Golf Mechanix fabricate/ship from
Asia. It would have been too much money to send back in shipping costs alone
so I kept the parts and have cobbled some of them together in a putter bending
machine that I am building.
MR3 still hold the fabrication rights and proprietary drawings for the
Scotlands. Roy actually was the subcontractor/fabricator for my machine. He
knew it quite well and mentioned that it was a very good design and he was
proud of his fabrication work. He listed many of the details that he said kept
that machine quite precise even after many years of use.
I would like to get the Scotland replacement parts from MR3 when they become
available. My lower jaw is all aluminum with a bevel and concave bed area. My
upper jaw is a one piece unit fabricated entirely from aluminum which seems to
be a waste. I see later models used a sacrificial brass swivelling upper jaw
that was pinned to a steel slide. I have the aluminum tee piece on the bottom
support that is used to align the scorelines parallel to the base/bed. I think
this tee alignment aid is still a better feature than the replacement lower jaw
foundation that incorporated brass sheaves but eliminated the tee alignment.
I really like my machine and appreciate the fine workmanship/design features
that went into fabricating it. Too bad they aren't still available but the MR3
True Blue is a great piece of machinery. I am not able to afford getting one
right now but I will be saving my pennies to get one. In the meantime, I forge
ahead using the Scotland.
PS: This took a long time to write and I am going to kill two birds with one
stone. I am now sending this as an email copy to Roy Laing at MR3 as suggested
by arniescl...@aol.com. Hope it helps others as well.
Frank Hann
----- Original Message -----
From: arniescl...@aol.com
To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 20o09 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Scotland L&L
Contact Roy Laing at http://www.mr3golfdesigns.com/
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