TECHNICALITIES – On CD available for free

[Steven Enticott]

Hello – Recently I borrowed a copy of Technicalities from a fellow Melbourne (Australia) based member after being frustrated in my efforts over four years to get a hard or electronic copy myself. Which as a new member from a non Scotting background with no technical assistance other than the invaluable advice from fellow members seems somewhat farcical.

I understand the arguments for and against “Technicalities” availability and maybe the inappropriatness of some of its technical procedures etc, but when you have nothing its information is invaluable.

I have scanned Technicalities into PDF format “as is” in the separate sub-sections it came in, and burnt it to CD. The CD is approx 30 meg in size. I am also looking at ways to “compact” it to an e-mailable size and then be able to email it out to others.

I was speaking to Bill Jamieson the original compiler of this publication and he is very happy for me to pass on copies of this CD to other members of the Scott Club. The only condition he has is that no-one other than the Scott Club should make any fiscal return out of distributing it, not that I would want to make a dollar out of it anyway – Just happy to follow Bill’s lead in assisting other members.

So if you were like me and don’t have a copy of Technicalities and are a member of the Scott club, just send me an email and I’ll happily send you a copy for free – No problems, unless demand is overwhelming and postage costs kill me!

If the Scott club in England wants a copy to share/sell or object to me helping out other non “Technicalities”owners Just let me know and we can work something out.

All the best..I now have a lot of happy reading to do 😀

[Steven Enticott]

I have been recieving a fair bit of interest from members who have Technicalities and would like a copy an electronic copy as well, I am happy to provide one, up until postage costs kill me !

[Colin Hough]

Steven,

Great news!!!!

As a member of the SOC with very little technical knowledge but a copy of the Technicalities (and Book of the Scott), I have found them very useful (even with all of their contradictory info – it just gives a longer time reading and thinking about what to do), I congratuate you on making these available to new comers.

I recommend anyone without them to get the CD – I had planned to offer this service once I had retired, but am too busy with work to do it before then.

I recommend anyone with an internet connection who reads Steven’s post to pass it on to those who are not in the internat age (many years ago I had a secretary, now I don’t, but I do have a laptop, email address, mobile phone and answering machine!!!).

As an Ozzie in the London area, I am glad to hear that you guys back of Woop Woop have got your finger out and done us all a service.

All the very best,

Colin

[Steven Enticott]

I have been recieving a fair bit of interest from members who have Technicalities and would like a copy an electronic copy as well, I am happy to provide one, up until postage costs kill me !

[Jan Buchwald]

Recieved a copy today, excellent work, only time can tell the help recieved this way.
Absolutely a work the club should be happy to support.
Have allready got a sore arm, scrolling through all the informations.
To all you others, qiuck, get a copy while you can.

Jan B

[Roger Moss]

From the small Australian Scott contingent, there was Bill who originally compiled Technicalities and now Steven who puts it on searchable CD ROM
These efforts were driven by a wish to help others, without thought of financial return. I would like to express my total appreciation and respect for those involved. If this is typical of folks from Australia, I can see why my friends Reg Bolton and Kath Ellis decided to settle there.
I do love positive and pro active people–
I wonder if I am too old to emigrate!
Roger Moss
ps see work on larger engine!
https://www.mossengineering.co.uk/index.php?area=3&content=109

[Steven Enticott]

Thanks for your kind words Roger. Just to clarify, the CD Rom is not searchable, it is essentially an electronic photo copy of each individual section and sub-section broken up into PDF files. Great for reading and printing out individual sections or pages whilst you work on your Scott in the shed (without worrying about ruining your good copy as you can simply re-print or refer back to CD) It is the way of the future, I even keep an old laptop in my shed now as I have other motorcycle manuals that I have purchased on CD as well – Just look on e-bay now, there is a huge selection of electronic based manuals. I even look at my garage bookshelf now and think what a waste of space – I should start to sell of all my old manuals and buy the cheap e-bay copies..It’s a sickness.

To make something like Technicalities searchable you would need plenty of time on your hands and some powerful OCR software (Optical Character Recognition). Technicalities is mainly photo-copies of printed articles then re-printed, it would be very time consuming and costly (if someone was paid to do it) to do. No matter how good the OCR software is, it is reliant on the quality of the print, which as mentioned earlier is average at best. After scanning with OCR it would need someone with Scott knowledge to read every article to ensure the OCR has picked each word correctly, mate, very time consuming.

If someone wants to take on the challenge I can spend some time and scan Technicalities with OCR and send to them, be warned it will be “garbled, unformatted and mis-fonted” and an enormous task to take on !

[Jan Buchwald]

With the index, I find it easy to find the subject of interest, I have already printed close to one hundred pages of things I found needed closer reading.
Jan B

[Jeff Meehan]

Steven,
Many thanks for the copy, it is very good and a useful addition to the information I now have available. My PDF programme seems to require that each seperate folder requires to be told how to open but this is no handicap it just takes a little longer to view the area of interest, again steven many thanks.

‘Cheers’
Jeff meehan

[Steven Enticott]

Hello Jeff

Try downloading the Adobe Reader (per introduction sheet) it should then open automatically each time you click on the file.

Hope that works

Regards

Steven Enticott

[Rod Norris]

Steven,
Many thanks for the CD which arrived yeaterday (Friday 17th December 04).
Just had a flick through and found it to be very useful indeed. I’ll be making a donation to the Charity we discussed, on Monday.
Congrats on the fine looking machine of yours on the cd. I can well imagine it purring along in some excellent weather perhaps 50 miles from nowhere on a dusty track rather than in the salt & rain that I am presently enduring on my ride to work in Manchester each day (not on my Scott however).

[John E. Smith]

Thanks very much for the CD which arrived today.
Willingness to help other members is clearly a strong point of Scotting and the owners club.
I will happily make it available to members in East Anglia if anyone would care to contact me.
Meanwhile, may I wish all and sundry a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe new Year.

John E. Smith

[Roger Moss]

Thanks Steven, Bill and all Australian members involved.
Kind Regards and happy Christmas
Roger Moss

ps Take a look at a larger Two Stroke! Click the link —

https://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

[dave bushell]

Hi Steven
Just received the copy that you sent me. Nicely produced – many thanks.
Regards
Dave Bushell
SOC Librarian

[j.mitcheson]

hi steven–i received copy 23 dec ,best christmas present i have had for along time. i have still got L plates on the computer, but this is idiot proof.-switch on stick it in and im a way–thanks jim

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