Another LIBERTY MCY SPECIALTIES Announcement

[T. Cotten]

Cotten,
Guapo means handsome or "good looking", not what you were trying to say I would surmise...

Well damn the spell-checker...

G-u-a-no?

And no matter what, Ryan's dismay is widely felt.
There was a time (*sigh*) when motorcycles were embraced by those who couldn't afford more.
Times change, and if the rich wish to support those who still have obsolete and endangered skills, let it be.

Sadly, I cannot even begin to supply the most critical demand by myself.

....Cotten

[Rubone]

Cotten,
Guapo means handsome or "good looking", not what you were trying to say I would surmise...

Ryan,
I call BS on your rant. There are lots of good deals out there and it isn't the realm of old rich guys. I've never made more than a low income living all my life (my choice) and find plenty of old junk to keep me occupied. If you can't find it, you aren't really looking or don't know what you are looking at. And I find the biggest increase in prices has been caused by the young guys into the fad bobber scene who have driven the price of 45s and BT flatheads and Knuckles through the roof, not the rich guys. Prices are all about supply and demand, not income level. High end collectors are not looking for projects....

[T. Cotten]

Ryan!

Tedd's theft of "intellectual property" certainly went across the 'red line', but as an AMCA magazine advertiser, he is 'untouchable'. Hell, his attorneys' sent me threats!

Although I get "screwed" occasionally, its my own fault if I trust a poor supplier.
As far as customers, I have the very best on the planet. But unfortunately, there is not enough of my time to go around...

If you really have time on your hands, there are plenty of Schebler parts that the "top percentile" would appreciate (I still believe in "trickle down"), since ebay offerings are most often guapo! (The GX chokeshaft, disc, and tab that I just received from Sweden was so crude that I won't even 'feedback' on ebay. Almost sorry I registered over the Holidays....)

You can always post me direct at libertynightshift@gmail.com

....Cotten

[ryan]

Don't forget, Bill,...

You are an 'established account.'

....Cotten
PS: The real tragedy is that there is no one in the next generation to pick up the ball and run with it.

As a reply for the next generation picking up the skills, how can we when the prices are so high because of the 401k cash in's. This hobby is now for the top percentile. The only old bikes the younger can afford are the shovelheads. The rest has already faded out of reach as far as we are concerned. I am a degreed Industrial Engineer with over ten years experience being a plastic injection mold maker that pulls in a decent wage and can't even find a decent chief that would pull in almost half my years salary.

I am just about ready to design, make the patterns, castings and machine my own air cooled four cylinder engine. At least I have the time and means to do that.

It is very ironic that the people who want it carried on ar the same people that put these bikes out of reach in the first place and that are moving them out of the country. So, the old hobby will indeed die with the older generation.

As far as the guy who screwed Cotton over, pull his membership as well as the guy who used his pictures that is now making money with them.

[T. Cotten]

Sorry to bump this thread Folks,

But Liberty is still backlogged with overwhelming demand.

Only manifold services and float requests can be honored in a timely manner,

Thanks for this valuable forum,

.....Cotten

[T. Cotten]

Nuklhd!

Just send me a PM with your real name and address (I can never remember from web names....), and if you are in my postal address files without a red flag, you are "established".
But you will have to be quite patient with any carb requests, as The Schebler Wars have me shell-shocked and gun-shy.
....Cotten

[nuklhd]

tom, how do I know if I have an established account? sorry for a probably dumb question.

[T. Cotten]

Sorry to bring this to the forefront again, but... Its getting out of hand.

Once again, Liberty can only honor float and manifold requests from new accounts,...

Don't get upset with me, especially on the phone, just submit your carburetor service requests from an established account that I know will pay me.

....Cotten

[T. Cotten]

SERIOUSLY!

I mean it, so Folks should stop calling me,
Not only because I don't have the energy, (and can't hear on a telephone anyway) but Liberty would be soon ruined by the overwhelming demand.

If you are not on my books, its only floats and maybe manifold services at large, ... soon to be: 'maybe' for all 'new' accounts.

If I had a crew on hand, it would be different.

....Cotten

[T. Cotten]

Cotten, did you bubble test that tombstone first? Could be why the printer had trouble! ;-)

Doh!

I just kept kicking it.

Back to the State of the Art: With my benches already swamped with overdue chores, a fellow who disappeared out-of-touch for a year resurfaces wanting his half-dozen G Models, as if I had continued with them thinking he was perhaps 'pushing up daisies'.
With many, many hours into them already, I stalled after subbing out ~$400 in welding. The welds ain't pretty, and I didn't sit down to carve on them. With other things to do, it was cutting my losses. Which brings us full circle to the looming skill-gap for the industry: All of my trusted TIGmeisters have died, or getting close to it.

If I send them back rough and un-useable, I won't get paid. If I spend several weeks on nothing else, the bills won't get paid, and they still won't be complete.
(I had hoped to R&D G Model float replacements, but reconstructing this venturi slide seemed critical at the time.)

The double-whammy is that "reproduction" hardware is most often pitiful.
As much as I like helping good people, I fear I must now tell folks with cobbled Tedd Linkerts, and ebay-hero atrocities, that they are on their own.

Just call me an "a-hole" like they do on the tribal forums...

....Cotten

[pisten-bully]

PS: I made the tombstone with my computer, but it was pretty hard on the printer.

Cotten, did you bubble test that tombstone first? Could be why the printer had trouble! ;-)

[T. Cotten]

That certainly is a tragedy. Skilled specialists are already scarce...going to be hard losing another one.

Don't bury me yet, Dewey!

I am already buried with demand.

....Cotten
PS: I made the tombstone with my computer, but it was pretty hard on the printer.

[cdndewey]

The real tragedy is that there is no one in the next generation to pick up the ball and run with it.

That certainly is a tragedy. Skilled specialists are already scarce...going to be hard losing another one.

[billpedalino]

Tom,
You did some very nice custom work on my M61-B. Sorry to learn of your announcement...

[Steve Swan]

Tom, I'm darn glad you rebuilt, conserved my two DLX38's. Your work is of the highest quality and your prices are very reasonable.