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Lets deal with this one aspect at a time.
My address
Bill Smart
6-29338 Jane Rd.
Thamesville Ontario Canada
N0P2K0
Copyright.
As I am not selling anything nor am I making money off of this I don’t believe copyright law comes into effect. It would be no different than me buying an informational manual and then give it to you. I am by no means a lawyer but I don’t believe that would violate any law. That is why I do not want any money. When and if this database becomes part of the Aomci member only website I am sure the Executive council will iron all this out. Further to that I am not sharing anything that is not at least 40 years old. The majority of the info I have is for defunct motor brands. I am also not providing anything which is readily available in the marketplace such as Seloc or Clymer manuals. I do have permission for a few of the manuals I have that are out of print but still under owner copyright protection. IF ANY LAWYER OUT THERE THINKS I AM BREAKING ANY COPYRIGHT LAW PLEASE INFORM ME AS SUCH and I will cease to do this immediately.
Paypal account. As the exchange of money may be an issue I will pay for any return shipping on USB sticks I send back along with a receipt for my cost to send it. I will also include my paypal account information. Please send me a self addresed bubble mailer in your package so I dont have to buy that as well. They are a couple of bucks each up here. If you wish to send me back the actual cost of the return mail great, if not no problem I will just consider it part of my desire to help. I am not in this to make any money!!!! I am strictly doing this with the desire to help fellow restorers.
I am only doing this to help people who have an interest in maintaining the history via this great hobby.
What do I need???? Hmm This is such a vast project it is far far easier to just get what you have, then check to see if I have it already. If I don’t have it already woo hoo I will add it to the database. If I do have, it no harm done I will just copy what I have back on your stick and return it to you. I have very little pre-65 Merc or its predecessors stuff. Little to no RBM stuff such as Lockwood, Korban,Caille and so on. Very little non North American stuff such as Dolphin, Seagull and others. Like I said this is a huge undertaking so just send what you have of original content. Dont send any whole or part of 3rd party printers manuals such as Seloc or Clymer manuals at all please. I will accept any owners manuals, parts manuals, service manuals, service bulletins, advertising, operating manuals, special tool manuals, accessories manuals…..virtually anything related to the preservation of old outboards. I am also including instruction manuals for out of date equipment such as Merc-o-tronic testers (which I already have) and others. I need any instruction manuals for any other out of date testing equipment.
The stick you send me must be at least 16gb in size. I will soon exceed that size so a 32gb or more will be better.