Date:         Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:58:25 -0800
Reply-To:     mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      westy pop top conversions are not for the rich
Comments: To: BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM
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Ben, most people don't lose thousands of dollars by taking weekends off
and are off on weekends because their employer is closed then. Most
people couldn't make thousands of dollars by working a given weekend and
any who can might well be advised to do so and then pay someone else for
vehicle work.

Those guys should never have started projects that they didn't
understand. Maybe they should have looked into doing it the easy way.
The poptop is not part of the bed. You can install a top and then add a
bed months or years later if you decide you want that or when the kids
grow too tall to sleep up there without it. Break the project up into
logical pieces and success is easier to obtain.

Mark


Ben T wrote:
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> Chris,
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> That's two people times two days, times X amount of hours per day. Even with that simpler conversion, that was big money lost for some of these guys. I work weekends. I know this is neither here nor there. But if ask Warren Chapman, a lost weekend can amount to tens of thousand of lost income in his line of of work. (BTW, we both thought "we" were both insane for doing much of our work but do it anyway for the same reason Jeff mentioned.)
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> I am not knocking what you and Karl Bloss and others have done. As always, I want to bring the other side's perspective on this. I have inherited several abandoned poptop projects from guys who had no idea what they were getting into.
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> BenT