This is NOT a coffee cup!

[PaulB]

You guys are something else/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif For a month I have avoided reading this thread, seeing as I don't drink coffee. Well, tonight the baby was asleep and all was quiet, so I thought I would read the thread - and I did, in it's entirety. You guys could go on and on about watching grass grow I am sure, and somehow make it interesting and fun!! If someone once said to me I would be reading a post on the net about a new super duper Chalkley cup, I would have thought they were crazy, but here I am!! thanks for the chuckles guys.

 

[gordon]

I bought the magnets off of ebay and the shipping was $1.48 and it was very quick service. I was more than happy thats why I posted the website and by the way I bought item #42. Those little magnets are so strong its hard to believe until you get one or two in your hands. I bought six of them for projects and have been more than happy with them. I havent lost a click pin in the grass since I bought the magnets. Hows that for an idea---I will leave the rest up to you king tinkerer./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Gordon

 

[scruffy]

PaulB, In the VERY beginning, MarkC created the string "This is NOT a coffee cup". Now why would you not read it, even if you DIDN'T drink coffee, it wasn't about a coffee cup! Although, I must admit he should have added R & D (Research and Developement) on the end of the subject title.

 

[MChalkley]

Scruffy - It would have been better to put "R&D" on the title but at the time I thought the R&D was done. That was the stupid part - I should have know better - the R&D is never done. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif But look at all the fun we've had! And the objective is a pretty practical one, to boot!

MarkC

 

[scruffy]

MarkC, How right you are! I am still looking for a flat spot to hang one on my old Lsomething or other. I can put it on the hood, but then I have to stand up to get it! I think I'll have to get a $20,000 cup holder before I can make it work reasonably! It has been fun though!
We are all waiting patiently for your next project!

 

[Billc]

Mark, found the pictures of your canopy instruments modification. One question, maybe you put them somewhere else, I didn't see any thrust vectoring switches?

 

[MChalkley]

Billc - The left-most switch (which I said doesn't do anything) is to activate the thrust vectoring module, but I haven't found the thrusters at a reasonable enough price yet. And, yes, clearly I'll need more panel space. That's one reason I asked Rick at R&B about designing the E-TiltMeter.

MarkC

 

[bpence]

PaulB------Chuckles!! This is not about chuckles. This is about a great engineering discovery / feat and a boom to local economies!! Imagine for a minute hundreds, no thousands, of tractor owners just like you and me out there right now flooding their local 7-11's to buy these HUGE drink mugs, stopping by their local computer store to grab and old recycled hard drive or two, then on to the hardware store to grab a few more magnets and some epoxy, and then heading off to their workshops to create......Chalkley Cups. Some HUGE, others not so huge. As in so many other important things in life, size is not what necessarily matters.

God I love this country. This is free enterprise operating at it's finest - necessity/desire driving product development, independent entreprenuers building product, local businesses benefiting from the whole deal. And what's even better, this whole concept of Chalkley Cups is available to everyone that stops by Tractorbynet.com.

You know, Harv may be on to something, too. Imagine, orange Chalkley Cups for sale in every Kubota dealership across the U.S. and Canada............forget that, worldwide. Orange mugs with images of your favorite Kubota tractor, and autographed by the inventor of the infamous Chalkley Cup!!! And JD green, and NH blue......we're in the wrong business guys.

Bob Pence

 

[Harv]

Gordon -

Common sense crept in as I slept last night, so I ordered some magnets from that "ForceField" place you pointed me to and cancelled my order for the dead hard drives.

I ordered several each of #41, #42 and #43. I'll decide which ones are right for the Chalkley Cup and have a bunch left over for sticking other things to the tractor, or whatever. They seem like handy things to have around.

One thing's for sure -- I've got to keep them the heck away from my computers, disks, digital camera, etc. Ironic, isn't it? They come from computer hard drives, but once uncaged, they are lethal (in the computer sense) weapons. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

 

[MChalkley]

Bob - The mind boggles, does it not? Just imagine what might result if somebody important at Aladdin came across this site. A niche market is born! Color is easy. A tractor logo is easy. Getting a logo of the right tractor matched up with the right color wouldn't be hard, either. They could easily install magnets at the factory. Wa-a-a-it a minute! JD fenders aren't metal. Are NH'es? Methinks a fly may be rapidly polluting the ointment. Naah! They could just sell those color ones with a glue down steel plate. Sounds like a few quid for somebody...

MarkC