Sunday, January 4, 2009

Other Facets

A couple of key components of the MVWC web site are reconstructed.
One new piece is evolving. A "wrench only" subset of Recent DATAMP Activity is getting off the ground.
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It is meant to have the dual effect of bringing continuous new content to www.mvwc.org, and help promote effective use of the patent research at DATAMP. A tech savvy member of the DATAMP team figured out how to construct an RSS gadget to pull content for the DATAMP Patent Feed page at www.mvwc.org

"Bus" Haury has some Upcoming Wrench Events posted on his Wrenching News web site, including the following:

Missouri Valley Wrench Club Spring Meet and Auction April 2009

The wrenches for the auction to be held in conjunction with The Spring Missouri Valley Wrench Meet to be held in York, Nebraska April 16, 17, & 18 2009 have arrived in Kansas and work on the catalog has began. The auction will consist of wrenches from the collections of Don Ervin of Surrey, Maine and Robert Matz of Cozad, Nebraska. I made two trips to Cozad to pickup Robert's wrenches and Don dropped his off last month. Featured in this auction will be by far the best collection of cutout type wrenches ever offered at an auction sale. Cutout include the "Holy Gail" of cutouts the John Deere TR590 plus a John Bull, Gail G8, W Plow Co, Planet Jr. 312, C&J, double hammer Deere A196, Bradley's Wonder D99 (with two square openings), Casaday, Osborne, IHC 770E, and over thirty others!