Can't answer for the Club's moral conscience.
Depends what overseas members get anyway. And why stunt growth of the
utility of the Club by such a principle, which I think has been discussed
before. Presumably as overseas clusters reach a certain critical mass then
similar facilities would be offered from the locality of these.
Anyway, its a mute point if the cost of the device is amortised over a
certain period from hire charges, beyond which UK members would then be
contributing further to Club funds.
As regards rate of loan of other equipment, carb. balancers are available on
pretty much every high street. Less so VSWR meters, which are far more
common than vibration analysers. Thus, a crude extrapolation of your
statistics on a "scarcity" versus "take-up" basis would suggest that 30
would be reached.
That said, there are comparable devices in the pipeline that might be
available later in the year at much lower cost.
Duncan McF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rowland Carson" <rowil@clara.net>
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Dynamic balancing? (UK only)
>
>
> >Sounds like a good case for convincing the Club to shell out on a dynamic
> >balancer. They're about 1500
>
> I guess there might well be enough Europa people in UK (and even near
> continent) to make that workable; but how do we explain to the
> overseas members of The Europa Club that we've spent a significant
> proportion of their subs on a bit of kit they're very unlikely to
> benefit from?
>
> I've no idea how big/heavy the thing is, but I can't imagine that
> posting it to US or Australian members would be practical.
>
> At 50 per go we'd have to hire it out 30 times to recoup the captial
> outlay. For comparison, the VSWR meter has been out 19 times since
> November 2000 and the Carb balancer 9 times since December 2002. The
> capital outlay on those was of course much smaller, and no charge is
> imposed for loan of either.
>
> regards
>
> Rowland
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