Harry, with ref to the nuts and bolts, why not have a conversion listing separately, and leave the existing hardware as is. Then folks around the world could select which hardware from the conversion list.
Re the need to redraw some parts, perhaps the list folk interested could come up with suitable castings instead. Is there a chance to get a set of the current drawings? William Belton. OZ. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 12:45 AM Subject: Vest Pocket Climax drawings > Here is the deal on the VPC drawings, and it doesn't look good. > It appears the set is going to run to six sheets, and be a squeeze at that. > When this project was originally published a number of conditions were > accepted by all involved as "this is the way it is." In order to make this > version of the drawings completely stand-alone a number of adjustments are > going to be necessary. For instance since several complex assemblies were > originally provided as on-piece castings, and drawn that way, those would > need to broken down into individual parts. Adjustments will need to be > made in some materials, the boiler for instance, as the design originated > in the UK thus some material sizes called for aren't commonly available in > the US. I will also convert BA to UNC, or vice versa, where only one is > shown. All this will take time, maybe too much time to justify the return, > if there is any. > For the metric heads, I have tried once before to do a set of > drawings where dimensions and threads where shown in both metric and Imp > and I became hopelessly bogged down under the burden of endless computing, > comparing, and cross-checking sizes and tolerances. That will not happen > here. I may get bogged down, but not by trying to include metric conversions. > > Regards, > Harry >
