Re: (ET) Mower blades

[Bfayette aol com]

Don't take them to the dump - send them to me! I disagree with the notion 
that electraks cannot be repaired without parts from Bill Gunn. For my 
part, I've only ordered one thing from Bill Gunn, the brake upgrade kit. 
I'm not interested in restoring them as historical pieces.  I want a 
functioning electric tractor. Coming from that point of view, I have seen 
very little on these things that I could not work around or find locally.  
BTW, on my E10 I use mower blades from Agri-Supply, #96-004.  They have a 
3/8" hole, so I bored out and rethreaded the motors for 3/8 fine thread.  
They have worked fine for 2 going on 3 summers, and I will always be able 
to get those blades

Brad

In a message dated Thu, 23 May 2002 12:33:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
gtlight vol com writes:
> 
>       If we don't keep Bill in business, We may just as well take our
>       little Toys (Elec-Traks) and take them to the dump. The fact is 
> most of
>       the parts can ONLY be supplied by Bill. I have a small supply of 
> new and
>       used parts that are kept in reserve just in case. No one else as 
> the
>       30 plus year old parts. Try to buy a circuit card for your E15 or 
> E20, You
>       will not find it.  As Dwight said BILL IS OUR SINGLE POINT OF
>       FAILURE.
>        -------Original Message-------
>        
>       
>       From: Hazen, Dwight L
>       Date: Wednesday, May
>       22, 2002 3:05:59 PM
>       To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
>       Subject: RE: (ET) Mower
>       blades
>        
>       
>       I am afraid Bill
>       is our single point of failure. You are not going to be able to 
> get most
>       of the parts for our tractors from any other place. The last time 
> I hauled
>       an ET drive motor into our local electric motor repair place they 
> looked
>       at me like I was from Mars. I guess they thought my GE 36v dc 
> motor was
>       from my space craft.  "Sure we repair Electric Motors, just not 
> that
>       kind" Bill had a new larger motor at the same price they wanted 
> just to
>       send my old motor out to be rewound. Bill even took the old burned 
> up
>       motor back and I got a core reimbursement!
>        
>       Now has anyone
>       tried the plastic blades?
>        
>        
>       Dwight
>        
>       
>       Dwight L. Hazen,
>       Indiana University, UITS 
>       Bloomington, In.
>       47408-7378 Phone 812-855-5367 hazen indiana edu
>       http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~hazen/ Ham Radio
>       wb9tlh arrl net
>       IP Phone
>       317.278.4014   Change is
>       inevitable except from a vending machine.
>        
>       -----Original
>       Message-----From: Elie,
>       Larry (L.D.) [mailto:lelie ford com] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 
> 11:41
>       AMTo:
>       'Jeremy Gagliardi com'; elec-trak cosmos phy.tufts.eduSubject: RE: 
> (ET) Mower
>       blades
>        
>       
>       Point well taken;
>       I bought a 'Power-Rated' 3/8" x33" main drive belt from my local 
> hardware
>       last night; main drive for an E12.  I would have ordered from Bill,
>       but I needed to run the tractor and didn't want to
>       wait.
>       
>        
>       
>       Last
>       time I talked to Bill I asked him to look into 'PayPal'.  I don't
>       think it would cost him anything and I could order RIGHT NOW.  
> Other
>       might want to encourage him to do so.
>       
>        
>       
>       Larry
>       Elie
>       
>        
>       -----Original
>       Message-----From:
>       Jeremy Gagliardi com [mailto:Jeremy Gagliardi com]Sent: Wednesday, 
> May 22, 2002 11:16
>       AMTo:
>       elec-trak cosmos phy.tufts.eduSubject: Re: (ET) Mower
>       blades
>       On Wed, 22 May 2002, "Garry &
>       Terry Freese" wrote > If we don't buy from Bill, he might go out of
>       business, then what do > we have? Why does so many people want to 
> buy
>       from everybody else. Very simple reasons: (1) Never put all of 
> your eggs
>       into one basket. In the computer biz, this is called "single point 
> of
>       failure". (2) Additional cost & time: If I buy from a local store, 
> I
>       pick up the product, pay, go home. If I buy from Bill, I have to 
> make a
>       long distance call, order, send payment somehow, in that payment 
> also
>       includes an additional cost for shipping, and I have to wait for 
> the
>       product to arrive. There is a big difference. So, in my book, it is
>       _always_ better to buy locally then to order from a far away 
> source, be it
>       an Internet company, eBay, or Bill. I have nothing against Bill, 
> but I
>       don't want to be forced to use him if it costs me more money or 
> more time,
>       and if it means never finding that alternative source -- if I 
> don't find
>       the alternative source (preferrably local), than if&when Bill is
>       unavailable* I'm left stranded with no solution. * note, he could 
> become
>       unavailable for any number of reasons: vacation, sick, disability, 
> gone
>       out of business, death, etc... -Jeremy 
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