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MameMaster!:


--- Quote from: Level42 on November 26, 2009, 09:09:34 am ---@Mamemaster!: Pretty interesting to see you already wrote an article about a product that isn't even here yet.  :dunno




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...it was an interview with Dave about his quest to create the perfect reproduction. Not a review of the yoke you silly boy.  :cheers:

FrizzleFried:


--- Quote from: MameMaster! on November 26, 2009, 08:12:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on November 26, 2009, 09:09:34 am ---@Mamemaster!: Pretty interesting to see you already wrote an article about a product that isn't even here yet.  :dunno




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...it was an interview with Dave about his quest to create the perfect reproduction. Not a review of the yoke you silly boy.  :cheers:

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Perhaps you can make it a series now?    :angel:

Havok:


--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on November 26, 2009, 04:28:58 pm --- If you visit his site,  it's portrayed as a 1st tier "main" business with multiple employees located in a rather nice sized warehouse location... certainly not a secondary "side" business run out of his house or some storage facility somewhere.   I mean that facility pictured on his site has to cost some pretty decent dough... and employees earn a paycheck.  I assume these are the same employees that are wiring up the yokes... getting hand cramps,  etc...

Right?



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Ram Controls is a side business out of his business, but there's no point in not making the side business look good too. Technically, all his claims are true on the website (as far as I know), it's just that those employees get a paycheck with a different company logo on them. As far as deadlines not being met - crap happens, and they aren't always met; just look at the New York State budget deadline for one!

prOk:

Havoc has it right.. Ram Controls is just a nights and evenings type biz for David where he goes out into his own shop and makes stuff, like quiet time from the real business that is stressful if that makes sense.  Think of it this way, yes he has engineers and machines, but if he had to pay his regular staff their regular wage to make miniscule runs of stuff like springs we could never afford those springs.  I'm sure he made ram controls a business for the same reasons I did.. not to look all corporate, but to keep the taxes and finances straight and well, be legal about it.

And cheffojeffo, you're so right about the Cheyenne art.  Been way too long, but at the same time just too complex to deal with for a while so it had no choice but to be put aside until I could get it dealt with.  Thankfully, the hard part is done and the artwork is now in thisoldgame's hands for printing so that project will FINALLY see the light of day :)   I'm just glad nobody's spent 10 pages of bashing on a message board about me over it :(  I know it's been a while, but hey, when the question is real job and real money to pay for my home or monkey around with some arcade art to meet some deadline i'll pay for my home every time and I hope you all think the same way.   If it's my family or my games, the games are history.

Even though Cheyenne is running way, way behind from what I actually wanted I did manage to deliver a bunch of neat things :)  Sometimes things that just randomly happen do indeed get in the way, but more often than not they eventually get done and then some.

Anyway, back to hopefully bringing out more of the positives of the hobby instead of pecking away at the negatives.






CheffoJeffo:

To be clear, I was trying to be sarcastic .. I don't have an actual beef over the Cheyenne artwork.

I'm thrilled that someone cared enough to put the time into it that you and Rich have, even though I am thinking of creating original artwork for the 440 multi instead of restoring it back as Cheyenne (but i may change my mind ... again ... who knows).

Take care of the family ... those cabinets aren't going anywhere.

 :cheers:

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