Hey ? Can you two guys do this as a stand up act at convention? ?Hilarious stuff. Ron...Fer sure you missed your calling. You coulda written manufacturing disclamer type B.S. ALL,...DAY...LONG! ? Dale >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 bro wn 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090210/3b4c95b2/attachment.html>
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