Re: (ET) Suggestions Wanted for Elec-Trak Web Site

["David Roden (Akron, Ohio, USA)" <roden ald net>]

This mailing list is surely the best current forum for troubleshooting 
help.  The willingness of people to take time to type in an answer is 
remarkable and much appreciated.  So I don't know that you need something 
like that.

On the other hand, I think most of the other ideas are great.  Maybe you 
could get everyone who has sales brochures, unusual documentation, or 
what have you, to scan it in or let you borrow it long enough to scan.

I'd like to see copies of all the attachment instruction books and 
service manuals available on line.  Also, I know that there exist a few 
copies of some highly detailed service manuals for the ET which were 
available only to dealers. You'd need a horrendous amount of web space to 
post scanned copies of these thick books, but it sure is nice to dream 
about.

As for the history, I think Bill Gunn at Tech Service knows as much as 
anybody.  Maybe you could interview him.

I'd love to see what others' tractors look like.  However, my ET isn't 
very photogenic.  I deliberately didn't pretty it up because this way I 
don't feel bad when I scratch it a little more.

I don't beat on it, but I don't baby it, either.  It's a working tractor. 
 It mows the lawn, cuts the weeds in our back field, plows the driveway 
in the winter, levels out uneven ground, and pulls my yard wagon up the 
hill loaded with tools or dirt or bricks.  I wish I had the rototiller to 
make our garden tilling easier -- maybe some day.