[pianotech] Nossaman Hovercraft - reprise

[David Ilvedson]

Ron,

If you are looking for a distributor, I'd suggest Conrad.   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 2/9/2009 9:47:28 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Nossaman Hovercraft - reprise


>William Monroe wrote:
>> I just wanted everyone who has any interest in building one of these
>> recently popularized devices to proceed with a word of caution.  I recently
>> discovered that there is a failure with the Auto-Pilot feature of this
>> device.  I was happily stringing away the other day, and came to a hole 
>> that
>> had only been drilled to 1/4" (I use two-pass drilling) instead of to the
>> G-bit that the rest of the block was drilled at.  It turns out the silly
>> drill-press rig just passed this one right by.  So, to all you who think
>> this thing is so great, be advised of this issue - and note:  The
>> manufacturer refused to cover this under warranty.  Of all 
>> the..............
>> 
>> Many <G>
>> 
>> William R. Monroe

>Bill,
>You'll note the absence of the autopilot feature in the 
>description and plans, or I'll note it for you. The reason is 
>that the autopilot function didn't manifest in the design and 
>authoring phases, which resulted in it's failure to 
>automatically show up in the article. Had it, it would have 
>(you gotta love a language this cumbersome). Should the 
>missing functions show up in subsequent code revisions, 
>housekeeping sessions, or dreams, they will be made available 
>as incremental upgrades which may or may not require 
>refabrication of the system to install, and may be hardware 
>sensitive as to ultimate performance in any case.

>As an alternative, we are currently negotiating with an 
>offshore manufacturing facility to offer corrective auxiliary 
>holes in a popular range of sizes, as a handy, discreet, and 
>economical repair option. While we feel that providing the 
>information to build the means to produce not only 
>appropriate, but strikingly superior holes should be enough 
>for any nominally reasonable person, we also understand the 
>desirability of third party no fault holes in certain 
>instances, so we're working hard to provide these as a nominal 
>extra cost after market enhancement to the basic hole 
>production system. The plain brown wrappers to ship them in 
>should be available any time now too.

>Order now, and we'll throw in a lifetime supply of darkness to 
>fill the holes to preserve freshness until such time as they 
>can be used.

>Operators are about to go to bed for tonight, so act - later.

>Yawn,
>Ron N