Will someone please get Steve to sit down and be quiet?
73, Pete N4ZR
At 12:26 PM 2/28/2009, Steve Cook wrote:
>Really...
>
>Well let's see Jeff. You jerked me around for over 2 months when you
>could have come clean.
>
>Nothing I said is untruthful -- sorry you are "embarrassed."
>
>Perhaps you should rethink your business approach.
>
>I doubt if anyone else here would have been more sympathetic after
>catching your act.
>
>If you don't want people venting, better grow some honesty or you're not
>going to be in the transformer business very long.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>-Steve (((WG7K)))
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Weinberg W8CQ
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 8:34 PM
> Subject: [Amps] Open Reply to Steve Cook
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
> I am not going to drag this out. I will make one reply to Steve's
> comments and leave it at that. He is telling his side and I will tell
> mine.
>
> I tried to help Steve with a custom design using some of Pete's old
> designs for similar units. In order to get the voltage and current
> ratings he wanted, an A-0550 core was called for. This particular core
> is made by Magnetic Metals and their product code is MS-314B. The price
> on a pair of those cores alone is over $1600 and with the freight
> charge, the cost of cores alone is almost $2000 (weight just shy of 175
> lbs shipped from California to the east coast brings the core cost to
> almost $2000).
>
> Pete's old design used this core. I had assumed that the current price
> of that core would be similar to the old price of almost 5 years ago. I
> was wrong in my initial estimate of the core cost. I tried to make a
> design that would meet Steve's requirements, but I could not do it based
> on current core pricing.
>
> I don't know what else to do. He told me that someone else could make
> the transformer for $2400 or $2500, so I politely told him he should buy
> it from them.
>
> Keep in mind, I went though about at least 8 hours of design changes and
> iterations to try to make Steve happy at no cost to Steve, but I could
> not do it. I could not match someone other manufacturer's price and
> that should have been the end of it.
>
> I guess Steve has to vent his frustration and that is his right. I just
> wanted to tell my side also.
>
> By the way for Carl KM1H, who do you think helped me with the design of
> this unit? Chris, from MagCap, my business partner. There you go!
>
> Jeff W8CQ
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