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Posted by Guy Fay on January 16, 2007 at 20:31:46 from (66.188.128.44):
In Reply to: Guy Ken's materials posted by SKK - Big Red Fan on January 16, 2007 at 19:30:22:
Actually, I'm 38. Kens a few years older. The materials you describe would be immense, and generally, they're still owned by Case IH, so we have limitations on us for access. There's quite a bit of stuff that Case IH has now transferred to the Wisconsin Historical Society from blueprints, which would be only part of what you describe. Case donated about 41,000 blueprints, which are now available to you by e-mailing the archives and asking for them by part number. There are some problems mounting them on the web which may or may not ever be resolved. They also only cover parts discontinued from service before 1950 (i.e. IH discontinued them from parts service alltogether, not just from using them in production. Those changes you mention? The parts books only mention a few. The real total is far, far more, the archives doesn't have a copy yet (they haven't recovered from the blueprints yet before beginning the project. The other major part of this is specification lists, which also run to several thousand pages. It's not an issue of putting a few pages up for the web, the job you describe is immense. The knowledge we have doesn't come from being around for forever, it comes from company records. I love the folks who state that IH kept poor records, or was loose. They've never had the oppurtunity to look at the company internal records (and it's a hell of a lot of fun!). I don't even really write anymore-full time job plus takes away the research time. Ken writes, don't know how he does it with the twins. It's not an income thing, it's a time, cost, and immense undertaking thing.
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