Good news: we might get sweeper manufactured!!
I found out after talking to a really great rubber manufacturer in California that the copywrite laws are easily bypassed. If the make the sweeper out of a different material or a slightly different shape as the original the copywrite laws won't apply.
It wouldn't cost Motorsport much to have a moulding manufacturer make and extrusion die and have the sweeper made, certianly cheaper than the entire chrome and rubber unit.
SO . . . Call Motorsports and tell them you want to buy the rubber but won't pay $150 for both sides to buy the nissan units. If we really complain and use up some of their 800 # minutes, maybe they'll seriously consider.
Heck, even if they charge and extortionist $20-25 for each side for the rubber, it will still be only 1/3 of what we have to pay now and they will make a good profit.
Call. I already sent a slice of the sweeper to the manufacturer so he could give me an estimate of the costs of manufacturing it. Then I plan to hook him and Motorsports up and see if we can't make something happen.
> I rely on Motorsport and Victoria British on
> some things but they are really price
> gouging the consumers. It is ridiculous how
> much they are charging for small stuff!!
> (Can't really blame them as they are a
> business and need the profit).
> But most things can be fabricated. I also
> have the same problem and will find out what
> I can do with this rubber seal..
> Eric's 73 project
> www.geocities.com/~esanmiguel/projz
I found out after talking to a really great rubber manufacturer in California that the copywrite laws are easily bypassed. If the make the sweeper out of a different material or a slightly different shape as the original the copywrite laws won't apply.
It wouldn't cost Motorsport much to have a moulding manufacturer make and extrusion die and have the sweeper made, certianly cheaper than the entire chrome and rubber unit.
SO . . . Call Motorsports and tell them you want to buy the rubber but won't pay $150 for both sides to buy the nissan units. If we really complain and use up some of their 800 # minutes, maybe they'll seriously consider.
Heck, even if they charge and extortionist $20-25 for each side for the rubber, it will still be only 1/3 of what we have to pay now and they will make a good profit.
Call. I already sent a slice of the sweeper to the manufacturer so he could give me an estimate of the costs of manufacturing it. Then I plan to hook him and Motorsports up and see if we can't make something happen.
> I rely on Motorsport and Victoria British on
> some things but they are really price
> gouging the consumers. It is ridiculous how
> much they are charging for small stuff!!
> (Can't really blame them as they are a
> business and need the profit).
> But most things can be fabricated. I also
> have the same problem and will find out what
> I can do with this rubber seal..
> Eric's 73 project
> www.geocities.com/~esanmiguel/projz
