Thread Number: 77750
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Ideas for expanding Automatic Ephemera |
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Post# 1017888   12/13/2018 at 16:34 (1,952 days old) by lowefficiency (Iowa)   |   | |
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I was browsing the Automatic Ephemera yesterday, and had an idea that I thought I would put forward.
As it is, the Automatic Ephemera is an incredible and growing collection of documentation made available, but as there will always be rare or long-lost items that are not (yet) included, or even perhaps known, historical archives like this will always be incomplete... Has it ever been considered to add a complementary reference section which details or describes the manuals, literature, etc, which are *NOT* in the Automatic Ephemera? There are quite a few angles to this quest, for example: * Companies for which there is no literature available at all (eg: Eden Washer Corp, Seeburg, etc) * Machines known to exist but for which no literature is available * Literature in the Ephemera which is present but incomplete (missing/damaged pages, etc) * Literature of any kind which is know to exist but is not in the Ephemera * Periodic literature for which date ranges may or may not be present (monthly service bulletins, etc) * Information which is already in the Ephemera but has multiple revisions (eg: the Maytag Halo-of-Heat service manual, which has the 1972 revision included, but was updated in 1975) * Any out-of-print literature that is already in-hand, but for which the appropriate permissions could not be obtained to include scans (copyrights, etc), or has not yet fallen into public domain * Links to current publications, available for purchase elsewhere, which are useful in the context of appliance research/repair * "Redirects" for information that might be found elsewhere under different names (example: the wide range of other-company machines made by Beam/Franklin) * Specific literature members are searching for (a "Most Wanted" page?) * Errata and other member-contributed updates or corrections to complement available literature Just an idea for consideration. |
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Post# 1017890 , Reply# 1   12/13/2018 at 16:50 (1,952 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 1018105 , Reply# 2   12/15/2018 at 11:53 (1,950 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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