CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

[CRT_Ben]

I'm still good for 6! ($300)

[Nashou66]

Reposting this since Bens reply started a new page:

[draganm]

i'm willing to up my committment to 6 bellowsfor $300. if this is still happening. Or did Athanasios blow all his money at the government liquidation feeding frenzy?

[Nashou66]

Still doing it!! I am committed to this project even if i don't get my $$$ back for a few years. I am still waiting Dales call for his work on the drawings and the
model.

Athanasios

[CRT_Ben]

[schmoe]

I think I might be throwing my hat into the ring. I purchased a red c-element and Curt was going to install it for me. We agreed he would stop if it looked like the bellows might not make it, as I didn't want to send it off the VDC and pay buku bucks. Well it turned out that the bellows had bonded to the c-element, so Curt didn't feel comfortable completing the swap. So now I have a red c-element for a future project, and it'd be nice if I had an extra bellows on hand just in case.

[Nashou66]

[Nashou66]

With all the LongBow marquee 8500 Ultra excitement here I forgot to post about the progress of this endeavor.

Dale called me last week and asked if i could drop off the stainless steel metal gasket ring for holding the bellow to the tube face plate. He needed to make sure the screw holes were in the correct place.

So i went to his office and he showed me the cad files and the 3d model of the bellow. Nice work on his part reverse engineering. he then took me for e tour of the plant to show me how they would be made by a three piece press mold
process. Now that i have seen it done to another product they make i understand. they make thousands of parts for almost every industry, they also made the first test O rings for the booster rockets on the space shuttle, and no theirs were not used for the one that exploded, although its Ironic that their prototype actually lasted during more test's than the company Nasa choose to make them, go figure!!

So He said he'd like to send me the model drawings to post here but is afraid I wont commit so i told him to send me a bill of terms and I'll give the first installment. So its Go guys!! I am trying to decide how to do this for ordering or payments. paypal worked great last time for the C-elements. Its just the fee's that piss me off!!! I wish i could take CC #'s to my business account but then it mess up my books for work. So looks like I have to keep the paypal method.

So there would be the paypal fee and this time i will take into account for foreign buyers as there is a higher fee for them.

So lets start getting a list going and I'll post my paypal e-mail and begin collecting and make a list of who has paid and # of bellows ordered. Once the bellows are manufactured i will personally test one on a tube and run it for a few hours to get it warmed up then shut it down and let it sit for a couple weeks before i decide if they are ready for use, i may ask the help of a few reseller here to test them also, id send one first paid shipping then let them report back and begin sending out
the rest. I am not sure how long the whole process will take from collection of funds to manufacturing and final testing.
They would have to schedule the product to be made on the line and they told me if they have lots of work it could be up to 4 weeks.


So lets get this thing going!!!!

Nashou66 at excite . com is the paypal email
EDIT New fee adjustment,
fee is 3.33% and 4.33% for no USA customers, this will keep it close to with a few pennies of what they charge me.
thanks Guys.

For individual i posted earlier how much for those i will go back and update that info here.

Athanasios

[CRT_Ben]

PAID

You're da man!!

[AnalogRocks]

[AnalogRocks]

[Nashou66]

[draganm]

Wow, Athansios is going to get CRT man of the year award now for sure. Perfect timing too, I have a Vision 1 here needs new bellows badly.

[draganm]

paypal sent but what about shipping? I just realized that isn't free either

[jantje112]

Count me in for one also.

[Nashou66]

[J Kildare]

Paypal sent.

Tom!!





Jim

[Nashou66]

Had to edit the paypal fees adjustment as they changed how it works now, canada is more, it used to be the same as US and now they also add .30 cents no big deal so it be 155 including paypal fees for all USA customers and 157 total for all others outside the USA.

or this way works too for those who dont want three.

Nashou66 at excite . com is the paypal email
EDIT New fee adjustment,
fee is 3.33% and 4.33% for no USA customers, this will keep it close to with a few pennies of what they charge me.
thanks Guys.

those three who already paid dont worry about it. I'll cover the difference.

Athanasios

[Nashou66]

The Bellow List:

Draganm 3 Paid
CRT_Ben 6 Paid
J Kildare 3 Paid


New fee adjustment,
fee is 3.33% for USA and 4.33% for non USA customers, this will keep it close to with a few pennies of what they charge me.
thanks Guys.

Shipping will be figured out once I receive the bellows, remember I do not know for sure How long it will take
Hopefully they can start as soon as I make the First Payment.

Athanasios

[Spanky Ham]

Nash,
I switched to Google checkout last year. I was doing some work for Coke and they wanted to use a credit card. I am not set up for credit cards, so I was going to use paypal. Fortunately, I found Google Checkout. 2% fees and your money is deposited in your account the next day. Plus, it is automatically deposited in your account, so you don't have to check to see when it is available to transfer like Paypal. Now, when a customer asks if I take credit cards, I can say yes through Google.

[Spanky Ham]

I forgot to add that I reread my statement that I was doing work for Coke. Before anyone can make a remark, those days are behind me. I think!