Manuals. How much is too much?

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Manuals are like gold...they/it is/are nice to hord....

12 years ago I didn't know a CMP from a armoured snowmobile..
I came into a stash of Canadian parts and maintenance manuals and the rest is history..
I had some expert advice and help to set up a web site with George Bradford and Chris Johnson and it took trial and error to get these manuals to the point they are today..My copies go around the world ..museums..private collectors..and I have yet to see better copies anywhere...
I have seen some other reproduction manuals that I would be ashamed to send out..
All manuals are reproduced from original manuals and to look at the copy and the original side by side the copy is always clearer and crisper..The laser copier we use is a Xerox and is a quarter million bucks..
It will bring out detail that can not be seen with the human eye in the original.
I have made these manuals available to the world..
But not for free...They are expensive to reproduce,heavy to mail and the shop where I have them done is 35 KM one way from my house...So a one manual order take it out...come home...pick it up ..come home....140KM ....that is a lot of time and fuel for a $50.00 manual....and mail is extreamly expensive..because of manual weight.........
I don't stock manuals ..To expensive ..limited market...low volume..
I send all manuals out express post or expediated post...traceable and insured..or air mail over seas..
I haven't lost a manual or a payment in 12 years ..ever..
I don't make them available on CD ...and won't ..
They are expensive ..but I pay top dollar to have them done..and I'm not running a charity and no one gives me these manuals..I get them at market price wherever I can..and yes paid $300.00 plus for some rare ones on e-bay..
But so be it ..I will keep them available to the world as long as I can..And they will never go to a museum ,but hopefully can be kept together in one collection and made available to the world as I am doing now..
The need is there for manuals..
I will carry on...

A manual that you would keep forever and use...$XXXXX
A pocket book that I read and gave away a couple of weeks ago was $22.00.....+ tax..
They are not the dime novels of yesteryear..