I wish we had a place to....

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Ryan

What about a sticky in the restoration sub forum that just contains links to all the drawings? That way they can be anywhere and better suit the individual poster.

Sounds like a good idea Ryan - just need to find someone or some enthusiastic people to do the researching and linking. Let's see what Hanno thinks when he awakens.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

The idea of a repository for drawing and dimensioned photos is a great idea, but I agree difficult to do in side of a forum such as MLU.

As someone who has done CAD drawing of CMP parts in the past I would point out another problem and that is drawing file type my CAD program list 15 different file formats.

To get some more ideas on the problem look at some of the following MLU threads
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/se...earchid=232008

Now on to possible solutions - Who in our group have web sites with space to host drawings and what is your area of focus?

I'm willing to look at hosting drawings of Chevy CMPs.

Cheers Phil

[Stan Leschert]

Do we have a place for TMs here, or do we refer to other sites?
Ie: Steelsoldiers.com or Militarytrucks.ca ?

[US6]

Kieth,

Check out Traction Talk (http://www.tractiontalkforum.com). It is a pretty lively road steam forum. It is based on the same platform as this from memory. In it there is a members section which contains a library, a drawing repository, a castings and patterns section so all of that information is contained in the one ara. It works quite well.

Just a thought

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Let's see what Hanno thinks when he awakens.

What ho! Sorry for my late reply, I don't get the time these days to peruse the forum like I used to.

Anyone is able to start a thread with links to the various threads with a common subject. Moderators can (and do) merge threads if they turn out to be on the same subject, or move them to the appropriate forum. Making a sticky of a must-read thread is not a problem, just as and the moderators will do that for you.
So we have a way to gather information and keep it together. It is up to the members to search the information and bring it all together.

In the past searches were limited to words at least 4 (5?) characters long to limit the bandwidth used by internet search engines software. I will see if I can alter the settings. But I've used Google to search this forum and it works very good.

David, it would be great if you could find out for us what Traction Talk has done to set up their members section (I am not a member so I cannot enter that section).

Thanks,
Hanno

[gary_bath_jr]

Hey Guys

I have my own domain with plenty of space as well as the ability to setup secure logins. I could offer the space to upload any documents for all vehicles, etc. As to the file type for CAD drawings I know the fabricating shop I deal with they use a waterjet to cut steel and it will read .dwg files which all versions of AutoCAD can save as.

If this seems to be a viable option let me know and I will setup the ftp site for all here to access.

Gary