School animation stand.

Yay! After some financial delays getting the stuff together to make the digital animation stand at school I finally got a webcam to add to the computer Corinne donated and the time Jeff and Dasha donated to get it running right and I installed a license of FrameThief on it. So last night, Peggy and I went on the long-awaited commando-raid of the animation lab to put this beast together. It turned out to be a lot more complex than I'd at first thought and now that it's mostly together, I'm finding I appreciate my Neilson Hordell a _LOT_ more. In fact, it's not a bad machine at all. It's a good machine. Good goood good old admiral Neilson. I'll never curse you again. My NH is in much better shape than the machine donated to the school and my gearing is much finer. I can do far FAR more controlled motion on my machine than the school's could. 1 crank of the handle on my stand pans maybe 1/100th of an inch. One crank on the school machine moves about 1/4 inch. Anyhow, comparisions aside, this poor machine has been much more abused than my little Neilson was. I think I can restore it but it needs a lot of TLC.

( Here's a cut-and-paste of the letter I sent to Marty on it's health: )

Need input.

Eepers. I got the following letter. What do you guys think? Look kosher?

Please advise

( Transcription of E-Mail )