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Originally Posted by PRejto
Hi Josh,
You certainly have my support for this endeavor of yours! One thing that has really frustrated me about dealing with the well known person in the USA is that he is very reluctant to give any help whatsoever in figuring out whether something will work or not. For example, it might be very difficult to see how he arrived at a back space measurement particularly when the part ends in a dovetail. In all of my dealings with him he just won't resolve a question like that. From a liability standpoint I can understand that position but it can be maddeningly frustrating because as has been pointed out mistakes are very costly. For sure you are going to receive many questions especially about camera spacing of flatteners and reducers. I think you will need to proceed cautiously. Hopefully you can provide some advice without taking on liability. That will be the trick. Also, how will you handle requests to mate something with a perhaps well known part that you don't have on hand? It seems you will somehow need to gather together a rather massive data base. In the beginning I suppose you can pick and choose your projects and simply inform customers that they had best generate the specifications themselves for you to follow.
Good luck!!
Peter
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Thank you very much Peter!
I realise I'm going to be asked questions and most likely be asked of my opinion, some of which has already happened, which is great.
You raise some good points Peter.
As for matching parts, I may request a part be sent to me from the customer (I have no issues paying the postage there), so I can match it. Thread sizes are made to a specification, and as long as I follow them, the parts should fit. Having said that, I like to check the part fits before sending it off. So yes, I am building a "library" of adapters, threads etc.
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Originally Posted by netwolf
Hey this a great idea we need more local stuff like this. I recall the pain getting an adapter for my Pentax refractor. For some reason Japanese people don’t like diagonals... everything is designed straight through.
One other thing to consider is with a bit of marketing once you establish yourself you could be exporting in the other direction given the dollar exchange at present.
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Yeah, I thought there could be a market there, thanks for your input Netwolf!