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i had an interesting conversation with my wife's friend's husband today. he owns a, well, i guess it could be called a machine shop, but it's more than that. he manufactures all kinds of weird stuff. he has two mold presses, and all kinds of other crazy machines. anyway, i was talking to him about producing some dropped spindles for a type 3. whenever my wife an his wife get together, he and i talk cars, mainly type 3's, since he owned one once. anyway, i was asking him what it would take to produce dropped spindles for a type 3. not cut and welded, but forged. he guessed the tooling and everything would cost about $40K-80K. just guessing... that pretty much snubbed my grand idea of getting rich by developing type 3 dropped spindles... damn... maybe i could sell dropped spindles for types 1 and 2 and still get rich... anyway, he also told me something i'd never heard of before. we were talking about the fuel injection system on the '68 type 3. he told me that he thought it was developed by the bendex corp, and bosch bought the rights to it, but it was and still may be patented by bendex. anyone ever heard of this before?? that would be pretty cool if an american company was behind this early fi system. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/