[Themaintainers] Tractor manuals

[Kyle Wiens]

iFixit would be happy to host these in a more native, repair-friendly format!

We’ve recently been digitizing power tool schematics:
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Makita_Chain_Saw_EA6100PR_2017

Cheers,
Kyle Wiens
iFixit CEO
@kwiens

> On Jan 18, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Jody DeRidder <jody.deridder at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sounds like digitization of the old manuals could be useful. Maybe store them in the Internet Archive.
> 
> --jody
> 
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>>  1. Re: For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now
>>     a hot commodity (Danny Spitzberg)
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>> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 08:28:20 -0800
>> From: Danny Spitzberg <danny at peakagency.co>
>> To: Eric Kaltman <ekaltman at andrew.cmu.edu>
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>> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] For tech-weary Midwest farmers,
>>   40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
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>> If anybody wants a stack of repair manuals for various vintage tractor
>> models, there are about 100 in a stack at a consignment shop in Morro Bay,
>> California:
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>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:05 AM Eric Kaltman <ekaltman at andrew.cmu.edu>
>> wrote:
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>>> Article from Star Tribune on the desire for older, easier to repair
>>> tractors.
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>>> http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/
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>>> ?Tractors manufactured in the late 1970s and 1980s are some of the hottest
>>> items in farm auctions across the Midwest these days ? and it?s not because
>>> they?re antiques.
>>> 
>>> Cost-conscious farmers are looking for bargains, and tractors from that
>>> era are well-built and totally functional, and aren?t as complicated or
>>> expensive to repair as more recent models that run on sophisticated
>>> software.?
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