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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 177799" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>Let me explain why I do not advertise. Carl has been very polite about some of the previous parts I have provided but this is a hobby not a business. If I advertised then people would expect me to have items in stock, to be able to provide them at short notice and be there to answer the phone or email within a day or so. My life is not like that. I design things and get professional machinists to make them. Two years ago I wanted thirty of the JE steering stems and it took over ten months for the firm which does the machining to find time from their contract work to do my jobs. I am not happy about that but realistically the work I give them will not keep a factory with twenty men in business and they have to do their contract work as a priority. There is also the problem of how much stuff to keep in stock. Several months ago I decided to get some Girdraulic lower links made. The Spares Company had been out of stock and had no idea when more would become available. These have now been made and an article in January MPH will describe what has been done. Twenty nine have gone to the Spares Company and an extra five, to suite the Greg Brillus mod are for me. Despite the fact that these are still not officially available and have not been advertised I now have orders for six of the specials when only five have been made. Clearly, I need to have more made and the good new is that the machining program is now fully developed so that will be a relatively rapid process, these are CNCd from solid. But I will have to wait until the word has got around before I know how many to order. All the standard ones will be available through the Spares Company and only the specials for the Greg Brillus mod will be available from me. The reason for this is that this project could not have gone ahead had not the Spares Company been prepared to order thirty and they can provide a normal retail experience to customers whereas I cannot. To put this into financial terms that was a £14,000 project while I recently had a delivery of thirteen JE stems which is a £5,000+ project. This might not be the retail experience which people want but I am not good with admin, am not VAT registered and could not cope with the paperwork if I was. The Spares Company do keep stock of some of my creations so that is the place to go for those who might be in a rush and are prepared to pay the extra cost which has to be incurred when a profit and VAT are charged. Let us see how the new lower links are received.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">(Article will be in February MPH, we ran out of room in January - Ed)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 177799, member: 456"] Let me explain why I do not advertise. Carl has been very polite about some of the previous parts I have provided but this is a hobby not a business. If I advertised then people would expect me to have items in stock, to be able to provide them at short notice and be there to answer the phone or email within a day or so. My life is not like that. I design things and get professional machinists to make them. Two years ago I wanted thirty of the JE steering stems and it took over ten months for the firm which does the machining to find time from their contract work to do my jobs. I am not happy about that but realistically the work I give them will not keep a factory with twenty men in business and they have to do their contract work as a priority. There is also the problem of how much stuff to keep in stock. Several months ago I decided to get some Girdraulic lower links made. The Spares Company had been out of stock and had no idea when more would become available. These have now been made and an article in January MPH will describe what has been done. Twenty nine have gone to the Spares Company and an extra five, to suite the Greg Brillus mod are for me. Despite the fact that these are still not officially available and have not been advertised I now have orders for six of the specials when only five have been made. Clearly, I need to have more made and the good new is that the machining program is now fully developed so that will be a relatively rapid process, these are CNCd from solid. But I will have to wait until the word has got around before I know how many to order. All the standard ones will be available through the Spares Company and only the specials for the Greg Brillus mod will be available from me. The reason for this is that this project could not have gone ahead had not the Spares Company been prepared to order thirty and they can provide a normal retail experience to customers whereas I cannot. To put this into financial terms that was a £14,000 project while I recently had a delivery of thirteen JE stems which is a £5,000+ project. This might not be the retail experience which people want but I am not good with admin, am not VAT registered and could not cope with the paperwork if I was. The Spares Company do keep stock of some of my creations so that is the place to go for those who might be in a rush and are prepared to pay the extra cost which has to be incurred when a profit and VAT are charged. Let us see how the new lower links are received. [COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)](Article will be in February MPH, we ran out of room in January - Ed)[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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