[time-nuts] Manuals heading for the dumpster

[Didier Juges]

I think the main contributor to the death of their business is that new equipment comes with usually worthless manuals, and even for those who have somewhat better manuals, the instruments are still not repairable by the amateurs.

I realize that free sites (like mine) probably did not help, but the handwriting was on the wall a long time ago and it is unfortunate.

Didier KO4BB

PS: I intent to keep my site up as long as I can afford it, and if someone comes up with a dumpster's worth of scanned manuals, I will find the disk space for it, but unfortunately, I can't afford to buy any of it myself.

On May 29, 2015 11:01:12 AM CDT, Gregory Muir <engineering at mt.net> wrote:
>To all,
>
>Am not sure if any news of this has been posted in prior times or not
>but will pass it along just in case.
>
>Manuals Plus (http://www.manualsplus.com/) will be closing its doors
>the middle of June.  The proliferation of available PDF documents
>available plus the increasing number of other sellers on eBay has
>reduced their business to a point where they cannot afford to remain
>alive.  As a result, they are going to close up shop.
>
>No one has stepped in to assume the manual stock that they currently
>have so it has been decided that when things cease, all of their stock
>that hasn't sold will hit a large roll-on dumpster and head either for
>the dump or a recycler.
>
>They are entertaining offers for manuals at this point.  Becky, the
>main contact at MP is the one to talk to,  She is very amiable to
>making deals on manuals.  I have been stocking my files with some very
>unobtainable legacy manuals for great prices far below the ones asked
>on eBay or from other dealers.
>
>It's a shame to see such a resource disappear.  But it is even worse to
>see thousands of legacy manuals get destroyed in the process.  MP has
>been one of my main sources for many rare manuals from many equipment
>manufacturers over the years.
>
>It is realized that the majority of their manual stock pertains to test
>equipment but there may be that one odd thing you are looking for that
>they have.  One comment is that their search engine is somewhat
>primitive.  I produces results from manufacturer names or equipment
>model numbers only.  Try several variations of model numbers (such as
>removing suffixes, etc) to see if other manuals will appear.
>
>Greg
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