Storage Space for Vintage Yanmar Literature

[rScotty]

Does anyone have an idea where we should post copies of old sales brochures, specs, and repair/parts manual info for our vintage Yanmars? I don't know of any such a place here on TractorByNet, but maybe I simply haven't looked in the right place. If there's a place here that would be perfect.

Back when I started this Yanmar forum on TractorByNet (in 2001), it was because the old Yanmar forum on Yahoo - which is still at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yanmartractorownersgroup/ - was unmoderated and had become so loaded with spam that it didn't seem salvageable. At the time, it bothered me that Yahoo had space for storage available and TractorByNet did not..... But a decade past, the spam over there made conversation impossible and the site owner here was willing to welcome our group by creating a Yanmar space.

Yahoo's forums have improved since then; I haven't seen spam there in years. And the Yanmar forum is still there and active - though not nearly as active or as well set up for postings as this forum. But Yahoo still has the advantage of storage space for files and photos. I've been posting information there through the years as have many other Yanmar owners. In fact, I just posted a copy of the brochures for "Yanmar's YFL Loaders" there last week. So Yahoo has a limited space that is handy, and available....though it sure needs a librarian to upgrade the filing system. We could do that.

Any ideas?
thanks, rScotty

 

[clemsonfor]

Maybe they can pin a post, but everything i guess would have to be attached in a thread?

 

[rScotty]

Maybe they can pin a post, but everything i guess would have to be attached in a thread?

There's something I hadn't thought of. We could have an ongoing "Yanmar Literature Thread". The title of the literature in the text section and then just attach .jpg copies of pages. Is that what you mean? Would that work?
rScotty

 

[California]

I think that would sort of work, but I've seen a lot of threads like that get cluttered up and made useless by irrelevant posts, for example newbie questions from someone who just bought a model which is documented there and then pages of irrelevant discussion of his issue.

Lets keep this discussion open and see if a better alternative appears.

I think links here to pdf's filed somewhere outside of these threads might work better.

While I'm at it - rScotty thanks for founding this forum!

How do we access the Yahoo picture section? I've been subscribed to their Yanmar forum since I bought my YM240 in 2003 (and Yahoo's Subaru and Trooper forums long before that), still get the emails and could reply to them, but I lost my Yahoo password long ago so I don't think I have access to the photo section. I don't post on Yahoo any more because my Yahoo login is my real name and my (static) IP shows in every post. I quit posting in the Yahoo forums and on Usenet (also my real name) after a scammer named me as reply-to in a massive Viagra spam. I suddenly got 10,000 bounce messages and a ton of hate mail. From then on I decided to just be 'California' on the Internet.

Anyhow thanks for offering to share your literature and I hope a useful solution appears.

 

[clemsonfor]

I would think if we could get someone with "moderator" privleges we could make it work. Basically it would start as a post and then we could have things added to the "pinned" thread, but to others it would be locked so you cant get the, "i just bought a yanmar 1500 what oil filter do i need" questions! Do we even have a yanmar forum Mod?

 

[ym165dpete]

I reed a forum for ford rangers,they
use a thing at the top of the threads that they call sticky. I don't know how they do it but general information allways stays ,and at the top.

 

[clemsonfor]

Thats what a sticky or pinned thread is. Its set up by a mod. TBN has them, go to forums like attachments or rural living maybe they have some there.

Edit: I looked Trailers and Transpertation forum Positively has them, rural living dosent have any. As well as there a few in Attachments forum.

 

[California]

I like the idea of a 'sticky' documentation thread at the top of the Yanmar section.

But the way jpegs are inconvenient to view in VB (the software here), I'm not convinced that individual pages posted as jpegs would be the best way to display the manual pages. Doing it more like the in-page links here that go to Hoye's indexes and diagrams, seems more convenient.

Anybody know the copyright issues related to posting original Yanmar docs?

 

[284 International]

What about sharing them through Dropbox/Google Drive etc? One of the other photo sharing services may work too, and we could perhaps sticky a link to manuals hosted off-site.

I wonder if there is any way to petition for one of the well-known and trusted members like California or Winston to gain moderator privileges for the Yanmar section, so they are able to sticky threads, or otherwise edit things as needed. (Not to unwillingly nominate you fellows, but you are the best known, most knowledgeable and most respected members of this area, I think, and consistently monitor the board.)

 

[scottlw]

yeah i was thinking maybe a shared dropbox folder would work. What are the majority of file types? PDF? Jpeg?