<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I'm sure there's others closer than me - Randy Marcus (another '03 model R) and I are in Central NY Ithaca), about 4 1/2 hours from Monroe. We might be able to arrange a trip to visit other than Hershey. I know we both have full schedules through summer already, but there's things that can be done at a distance as well. Just phoning Monroe and asking what provisions he has, or would like to have, to make to ensure continuation of his work would be a start. And I think he'd welcome a call, and some CDO news as well.<br><br></div>Taking on his parts production would be at least as big of a project as getting the club rolling. There may be someone in the club, or parts suppliers who would be interested doing this as well.<br><br></div>Roger<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Vince O'Brien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vobrien@oskr.com" target="_blank">vobrien@oskr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I agree. I’ll set up a vendor section on the website. Maybe at Hershey we can send a delegation to Monroe’s to discuss this too.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Curved-dash-olds [mailto:<a href="mailto:curved-dash-olds-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">curved-dash-olds-bounces@autox.team.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Roger Garnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 4, 2016 5:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> CDO List <<a href="mailto:curved-dash-olds@autox.team.net" target="_blank">curved-dash-olds@autox.team.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CDO] CDO parts<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The maker of this con rod is worth capturing as a source - if they're not in Monroe's catalog, they're not likely to be. He has a great selection of raw forgings available, get the finish machine work done yourself,
but I get the impression he's not developing anything not already in the catalog. One thing we can do on the web site is create a list of vendors, and another of compatible or cross referenced parts.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Monroe is another important CDO resource, and we should figure out how to preserve what he's done while we can. Monroe has a lots of molds and other tooling to make these parts, and has a number of folks that
do the forge work and and stuff to make the parts. He's done a lot to build this up as a one-man operation, and it would be unfortunate to lose it. When I talked to him last year, he said he wasn't able to go to Hershey due to mobility issues - I think he's
at least 82 years old.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">How can we best approach this as a club, to preserve and continue these parts and production capabilities?
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