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WOW Jerome!!!

Don't get your nose all bent out of shape. John and I BOTH agreed to send RACS that stem that we developed and it didn't cost RACS a stinking dime.

We have thousands of dollars invested in the R&D of that stem alone.

You have no right to critisize us. The fact is, that John and I have spent MANY THOUSANDS of dollars of our own money, and hundreds of hours in R&D, and nobody has contributed a single red cent to our effort.

John and I will keep the formula for sealing the tubes proprietary if it is successful.

How the hell do you expect us to recover even a small part of our investment if we give our trade secrets away.

This is not only an attempt, by John and myself, to do something that has been needed by members of our hobby for many many years, but it is also a business venture.

John and I are not a multi-millionires with deep pockets. And our efforts are not for the purposes of charity. We need to be able to possibly recover our costs of R&D by offering this service to other collectors at a small profit for each tube rebuilt.

If and when our process proves successful, and we have recovered our costs of developement, John and I will, no doubt, be happy to donate the technique to the public.

Until that time, you will just have to be patient and accept the fact that John and I deserve a fair shake, and some gratitude for all the time and huge amount of money we have invested.

And just to emphasize a point here, I don't suppose that RACS will be willing to rebuild 15GP22's for free, Will They??? Oh yes and as I recall; weren't those glass ringlets that RACS developed to rebuild Pyrex tubes also proprietary? So I guess this is tit for tat. Eh? And if they weren't proprietary maybe you should have RACS send a handfull of those rings to Scotty at Hawkeye in repayment for the stem that John and I sent them for free.

"The common effort is to rebuild 15G's not become Maddoff-rich with proprietary secrets." ..... Comparing me to the likes of Bernie Madoff has to be just about the most insulting thing anyone has ever said to me.

"The Common effort" ...... sounds pretty socialistic to me and make no mistake about it, I am a free market capitalist. God bless America and the Red White and Blue!

Seriously Jerome you were WAY out of line with your comments!!! and have really pised me off with your attitude. So much so that I may never agree to divulge what we have developed. This kind of attitude reminds me of how the European Unoin constantly picks upon U.S. coporations who have intellectual property to license. I am thinking of Microsoft and Qualcomm just to name a few.

I could go on and on but what's the point?

And please understand that I am speaking for myself. John Folsom had no part of this post, and should not reflect upon him.

Bob Galanter