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Subject:Re: MONSTER AWNING Prototype Pics on Flickr
From:Roger Whittaker
Date:Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:35:12 -0800

dear jonce
very good stuff about the boat owners using the canvas to go down freeway --
:)
i do some work with a marine surveyor and have cursory knowledge of boat
canvas --

your aircraft carrier experience and helicopter / fixed wing  tie down
experience likely puts you into the
-- I really know what i am doing category  --

so i will scurry back under my ledge and wait for your improved version --

glad to see the project is in such knowledgeable hands --

i have a pal whose daily driver is a 50 ford flat head
(think thunder road but with a canadian mercury issue of the engine)

he developed many improvements to the engine which were not technologically
possible in the late 40's --
it impresses me each time i see what the mind is capable of
more so when i see what hands can produce --

are you familiar with warther knives of dover ohio
http://www.warthers.com/
click on the museum link to see a short film

yours

--
roger w
There are two kinds of jobs in the world:
Picking up garbage and telling people things.
Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw)
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