RE: [DML] Fw: door lift cylinders

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You may be right about all that John, it could be that the previous owners 
tightened up
the torsion bars to compensate for bad struts in the past, and with the old 
struts it was
just right.... I was not trying to bash your stuff, but I was adding to the 
conversation
by talking about my experience.
You were there with me and we both put them on the car and I complained 
about them then.
Until I have tried some other peoples struts out I really don't have the 
right to make
any judgments, for all I know they all do that on my door if it is not 
adjusted properly.
I will work on it...

...and, I was not trying to pour salt in old wounds but the fact of the 
matter is
that I can not talk to you about these things.
You won't return my calls or emails, and have told me not to shop with you.
I am not going to argue who is right, and who is wrong in this issue but
either way I don't feel like I did anything wrong.

In retrospect, the more I think about the "side-stripes", the more I feel I 
should
not be angry about it.
I did not design the stripes, and neither did you.
We both stole the design from the original so I can't claim that you "stole"
anything from me, so if I said that then I apologize.
I have no more right to the design than anyone else does.
I think the thing that was an issue for me is the fact that even after I 
begged you,
(I actually drove all the way to your house and begged you)... "please don't 
make the
stripes and sell them", that you laughed in my face and told me you were 
"going to do it
anyway and that there was nothing I could do about it"..
Up until this point I had invested over $1000 into the project, and you had 
not invested
anything so you had nothing to loose.
Not only were you planning on making the stripes but you were going to sell 
them
for much less than mine, forcing me to sell off the remaining sets I had for 
cost.

It wasn't the money that I was hurt about, a few hundred bucks will not make
or break men like you and I... however the total lack of respect was what 
hurt me.
You were very arrogant towards me, and even the brush off of "I am not going 
to sell
to you any more, get your parts somewhere else" was not a good attitude or a 
smart
business move.

I made the mistake of assuming that we were friends, since we had shared 
meals together,
spent many hours on the phone and each other's houses, and even shared the 
hotel
room and booths at Pigeon Forge.... I just assumed that we were "friends".
I looked up to you and you were a positive role model for me, and I was 
quite
dissapointed to be treated that way by someone I had learned to respect.

I don't think anyone in either a personal or business relationship would 
treat their "friends"
this way.....so am I wrong to be upset?

If you have a side of your own story you would like to explain I would like 
to hear it.
I am willing to apologize for what I have said in the past, shake hands and 
move on.
Are you?

- Videobob


>From: "John Hervey" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [DML] Fw: door lift cylinders
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:42:59 -0600
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>As I told Video Bob after he bought the new Stabilus factory original 
>struts
>that they are strong and needed to re adjust the torsion bars when the temp
>was around 70 to 75  degree. I see by the video that hasn't done.  He may
>wake up some morning and the $1,000.00 torsion bar is broke and wish it was
>done.  The video also shows that they perform even in cold weather and 
>don't
>sag like some others.
>The bar really needs to be backed off. Stabilus also does not build in the
>buffer as the door goes up. There are some that are made in Turkey that
>will, but the quality unless it's been improved hasn't been very good.
>If you will re adjust the torsion bar you will be fine.
>John Hervey
>www.specialtauto.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Videobob Moseley [mailto:videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:51 PM
>To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [DML] Fw: door lift cylinders
>
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>
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>Here,
>check out this video of my doors and you will see what I am talking about.
>It is a cool 52 outside...
>
>http://www.bttfstuff.com/MOV05225.MPG
>
> >From: Soma576@xxxxxxx
> >Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: RE: [DML] Fw: door lift cylinders
> >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:25:35 -0500
> >
> >
> >
> ><<<If anyone is interested, I can make a video showing how the doors open
> >with
> >these
> >shocks and you can tell me if it is normal or not.
> >
> >- VB>>>>>
> >
> >VideoBob,
> >
> >Are you sure your torsion bars aren't overtightened a notch or two?  If 
>you
> >remove the piston from the door and let the door hang, it should only 
>have
> >a couple inches of space from being closed.  If you have much more than
> >that, the bars are too tight.  It's likely a previous owner may have
> >cranked them up one because the struts were about dead and this way they
> >opened better!
> >
> >Andy
> >
> >
> >
> >
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