[T3] Microfiche

Dave Hall dave at hallvw.clara.co.uk
Mon Feb 20 16:38:49 PST 2012


I think Russ said the pdfs are searchable.  That could be a great help in
finding parts and their fitment.  I started scanning the parts book and
doing OCR on the pages years ago - each page took quite a while, mostly
checking for mistakes.  I didn't get too far with it!

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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Sent: 20 February 2012 22:25
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Subject: Re: [T3] Microfiche

 
In a message dated 2/20/2012 12:51:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
skellzangelz at hotmail.com writes:

Hello  Bob,

If you would be willing to part with your set of 'fiche for a  little while
for me to make a go at scanning and getting them together in a  pdf file,
I'd be happy to pay for media mail shipping and even give you a  little
something as a 'rental' fee, if you want.  Seeing Jacin's post  about the
Type 3 Wiki, this could be a great addition to that page.  I'm  imagining
being able to make a single file that one would be able to page  through in
a pdf reading program (like Adobe Acrobat Reader or apple's  Preview).  If
this turns out to be the case, perhaps it could be made  available for
download from the wiki site (I'm not good with web design, so  I'm not sure
how well that would work).  I guess in some ways it would be  a little
redundant to have the 'fiche when he's got the parts catalog up on  the wiki
but it would be nice to have something that people could put on their
computers and be able to look at multiple pages more easily, as with a
book.

Let me know what you think and I can send you my  address.

Thanks,Jeremy
SF, CA'71 Squareback, MT,  FI



I don't have any microfiche. What I've got, are a set of CDs (in pdf
format) that I got from Russ. Russ took the time a couple of years ago to
scan them. I sent a copy of them to Jacin last summer, so that he could add
them to the type 3 Wiki that he started. Jacin converted the pdf into jpegs
to make  it a little more user friendly. I figured IF they were on his site,
then  others would be able to view it and get some info they needed. Plus,
he was  looking for some info to help build the site. This applies to anyone
that owns a  t-3.
 
The idea behind Jacin doing the Wiki was actually Tram's (he's not a member
here, but did go to VW school), as he realized the loss of Russ and the info
he  knew was lost as well. Remember, Russ worked on these cars when they
were new  (at the dealership), and kept working on them after he retired
from VW, and even  after he retired from Mahle.That kind of info is hard to
replace. The idea  was to get some sort of record down on the different
changes over the years of  t-3 production, so IF someone wanted to, they
could restore a car back to stock,  or what some of the needed maintenance
might be, or things like that. The 1500  Club was started like this over 5
years ago to help preserve the early  cars, and Tram was looking at
expanding it to include the later cars as well.  But even more so, was the
fact that our cars are 40 (or almost) years old now,  and the number of
completely original cars is declining. This is even more so  with the 66 and
newer cars, as they were actually produced for sale in the USA.  The pre-66
cars were "gray market" 
cars here. The remaining "unmolested" cars  could also serve as examples as
to what these cars originally came with. At  least that was the idea. Jacin
noted that the registry numbers show only  about 1100 cars total, and we all
know that number is low.
 
Bob 65 Notch  S with sunroof and IRS (Krusty)
64 T-34 Ghia (Wolfie)
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=412120
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