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The Swap Meet is now in the Forums |
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Well, come on now -- This shouldn't be a surprise!
We told you May 1, the old Swap Meet would shut down. Judging from
all the new registrations, it looks like the transition was pretty smooth
(lots of interesting log-in names, by the way!). For
our users, it means you only have to use one user name and password to access
all the features of The Stovebolt Page.
For us, it means a more streamlined and efficient site administration (with
one less stand-alone suite of software to manage and a little more space on
the server!) An added bonus has been to see some of the discussion that's
been generated when buying and selling stuff. We're glad to finally make this
change!
May
feature story
Tom Truhlar contacted The Stovebolt Page last year about his 1953 Chevy stepvan. Not just any stepvan but a model 3742 3/4-ton forward control chassis with a Grumman all-aluminum body with sliding doors (roll-down windows). Tom and his wife, Kathy, had quite a restoration project before them, but when they finished ... what an accomplishment!
Tom and Kathy own a small dairy plant in southern Wisconsin and handmake a popular ice cream bar called the BIG BAR. They take their bars on the road to car shows throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Their goal was to have their Stovebolt ready for one of their largest events -- the Spring Jefferson Swap and Car Show in Jefferson, WI April 23-24, 2005.
And they did! Come one, come all ... read all about it ...
We've got some more wonderful Bolters to thank for their donations during the month of April.
| Raymond Seaborne | Brian "sixtyninebri" Davis | Mike "Dakota" Jordanger | Steve "Nauta" Heath | Woogeroo "Woogeroo" Woogeroo |
Help keep this site going and growing!
Stovebolters support the "Tools for Cure 2005"
Many of our regular Bolters are familiar with Brian Moore's annual fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis. The Stovebolt Page is more than happy to give Brian support in the forums to help rummage up tool donations and to sell the raffle tickets. Seemed like a lot of fun last year, some great prizes and some great awareness of CF.
From Brian ~~
"In March of 2000 our daughter Hannah was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). She is now five years old. To give you an idea of how CF affects Hannah and our lives here's a look at some numbers.
Over the next year:
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Hannah will take more than 5,800 pills
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Hannah will spend more than 900 hours receiving breathing treatments
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Hannah must have 243 hours of physical therapy to help clear the thick mucus from her lungs
CF doesn’t take a break or just go away. CF is fatal in EVERY case. There is no cure for CF, yet! More than 30,000 people in the US, and approximately 75,000 people worldwide have CF. One in 31 people is an unknown symptomless carrier of the defective CF gene.
Shortly after Hannah’s diagnosis, my wife Sarah and I became involved in
fundraising for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
We soon learned of another local family who also has a daughter named Hannah
with CF. Together we teamed up to form the Buck / Moore for CF committee.
We have a web site is that tells the story
of the two Hannah’s.
Tools for a Cure was started because even though my wife and I are pretty good at asking anyone for money for CF, we wanted to be able to give something back. I like tools ... no ... I LOVE tools ... so I thought "Hey, let's have a tool raffle!"
So late in 2003 I started to research and collect names of companies that made or supplied tools. I have tool companies from every aspect of the tool industry (wood working, automotive, construction, craft, etc.). Early in 2004 I sent out over 500 letters to all these companies. I was truly shocked when boxes and boxes of tools started to show up at our house! In all we received over 100 items to raffle.
So that is how Tools for a Cure was started. In 2004 Tools for a Cure sold more than 300 tickets and raised more than $3,000. Over one-third of the tickets were sold online to my fellow Stovebolters (oooh-rah!). There were a few Bolters that sold tickets for us and some helped promote our raffle on other websites.
This year we hope to raise $5,000. We have lowered our ticket price from $10 to $5 hoping we will be able to get more people involved. Tickets will go on sale mid-May and the raffle drawing will be held in late August / early September.
This year we will have sent out more than 700 letters and already have more than 50 prizes that value more than $2,000. Quite a few of the Stovebolters who participated last year won something. Some of the winners from last year donated their prizes to this year's drawing and we really appreciate their generosity.
Our whole family appreciates all the support, whether it be through tickets sale or just the thoughts and prayers of everyone who has helped us work towards a cure for our daughter and all the other people throughout the world who have CF. I look forward to someday meeting some of my fellow Stovebolters to thank them personally.
Brian Moore
Tools for a Cure Chairman
A Buck / Moore for CF Committee
756 Ansley Drive
St. Joseph, MI 49085
A big thanks to 
Another great source for on-line manuals is Keith Hardy's 
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