posted 11-14-2003 06:07 PM ET (US)            

I have sent him many dimensions and photos of parts for the RPS so I know that he is working on these drawings...

I don't want to endulge his name without prior permission so maybe he will shed some light if he is anywhere close to releasing these plans..

If he isn't anywhere close, then hopefully these plans aren't too far in the future...

posted 11-15-2003 12:46 AM ET (US)            

I'm sure this person may not have enough to do... He is probably off basking in the sun off Cabo, or Hawaii as we speak.... Maybe even having a Margarita or two... :-)

posted 11-16-2003 01:14 PM ET (US)            

I've had those drawings basically done since we last talked about them earlier this summer but have not been able to get them into a pdf. Right now I'm trying to switch over to a new Mac and get used to OSX plus I have new version of my CAD software I'm trying to figure out.

posted 11-16-2003 01:42 PM ET (US)            

I draw in Adobe Photo Deluxe, a way scaled-down version of Photo Shop, I think; it allows me to save documents in .pdf format, even though I don't have Adobe Acrobat on this computer (I do at work).

You have e-mail, and contrary to what I said earlier, I think I'll hold off distributing my plans until I hear from you, so there's no unnecessary duplication.

posted 11-16-2003 01:49 PM ET (US)            

One of the nicest things OS X has is the ability to save things in .pdf form...

When your document (drawing) is on the screen, go to the File, Print Window.

Instead of choosing Print, Choose "Save as .pdf" .....

This is a great feature as you don't have to own Adobe Acrobat to save things in .pdf form.....

posted 11-16-2003 02:57 PM ET (US)            

Drawings will go out tonight or tomorrow, upon completion of detail, to Joe and those who e-mail me and request them. Tom has a progress set.

posted 11-16-2003 03:41 PM ET (US)            

I hope they help... If you need any further assistance, feel free to email or call me..

kingfish & Tom,
I am looking forward to getting copies of these drawings so they can be usefull to anyone interested..

kingfish,
I am going to send you an email with a photo of the original Perko Rod Holders that were dissasembled and then all parts measured..

posted 11-17-2003 11:31 AM ET (US)            

Just sent you a progress set - still finishing final details.

posted 11-19-2003 11:38 AM ET (US)            

I'll try to get the final version out this afternoon.

Joe, do you have a preference as to format?

posted 11-19-2003 07:18 PM ET (US)            

Whalerific,
Can you tell us more about the RPS Rod Holders???
Are they going to have the "White" Rubber Tops??
I have been thinking about replacing mine with Lee's Flush mount because I have not been able to find the White Rubber Tops...

posted 11-26-2003 08:55 AM ET (US)            

I've had the plans completed for a few days now, and got copies off to Tom Clark, but have had some really ugly software compatibility problems develop on my PC that have taken up way more of my time to sort out than I had available. Got everything back but Outlook, and it doesn't look like that's going to happen; but that's a whole 'nother, long and off-topic story...

I'm going to try and send the the plans out to you guys "toot sweet".

posted 12-03-2003 05:33 PM ET (US)            

The drawings are now posted and available on the OEM Drawings page..

www.sisqtel.net/~jkriz/drawings/drawings.html

Great work and I am sure many people will thank you...
I Thank You....

posted 12-03-2003 07:47 PM ET (US)            

You're welcome - it was a gas finding out I can manipulate CAD software and pretty much make it do what I want it to do - and it kept me occupied over the Thanksgiving holiday.

geohjr-

posted 12-04-2003 08:39 AM ET (US)            

You have mail...

posted 12-04-2003 09:00 AM ET (US)            

Thanks you for all your effort in producing these plans. I have my RPS seatback sitting on my workbench as I type. I was planning on working on it this winter and this information will be a big help. I did a calculation using Autocad, a computer drafting program I use at work, and found that the angle of the slope of the front and back is approx. 5 1/2 degrees off the vertical(90deg.)or 84 1/2 degrees off the horizontal(0deg). This will be helpful to know when setting your table or radial arm saw to cut the end pieces and the angled long sides of the bottom piece. (For all the perfectionists out there, the actual angles are 5.4403 degrees or 84.5597 degrees.)

I hope this added information is helpful for all you weekend woodworkers(including me!).

posted 12-04-2003 11:55 AM ET (US)            

You're welcome - and thank you. Those angles *are* important and useful information and I had intentions at one time of calculating them and including them in with the drawings, but that notion ran away from me some where along the line. I'll probably update my drawings to include them, thanks to your help.

I used Turbo-Cad (low dollar answer to Auto-Cad), and was pretty proud of myself having never opened up a CAD program before Thanksgiving. I had made other drawings and earlier drawings of the RPS with various programs that were really designed for working with photos; it was a real joy to see some of the neat things a CAD program will do, and to find how fun it is to draw with a program that is designed to do just that!