Re: [sobs] A public note of thanks from Jon 'Sheer' Pullen]

[Victor Tikhonov <vtikhono@lsil.com>]

Well, the same story again. Since you moved to Washington, you
may be able to express (shout loudly :-)) your feelings to Microsoft 
personally - they are somewhere in Seattle...

Anyway, Jon,  your message in ASCII, recovered:


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----- Original Message -----
From: Jon "Sheer" Pullen
To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu
Cc: Bill McFarland ; Cygnostik
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:21 AM
Subject: A public statement of thanks from Jon 'Sheer' Pullen


It occurs to me I may not have yet done this formally.

I would like to personally thank each and every one of you who helped
make QM (my EV) happen.

I realize this might be considered a waste of list bandwidth - but I am
close to having what I would consider to be a 'no compromises' commuter
car - and I think I owe a large portion of that to the list. We were the
hands, but you _ALL_ were the mind. Big thanks to Lee Hart, Rich Rudman,
Bill Dube, Gary Hart, Victor Tikhonov and evparts.com,
allelectronics.com, and metricmind.com. Thanks to each of the scores of
you - possibly hundreds - that provided assistance along the way.

When I say we were the hands, I mean the QM team - to head this team [I
hope all of its members will agree that I was the head] was quite a
honor - to be on it at all was a honor.

I shared that honor with Josh Myers [specialties: mechanical,
fabrication, and part removal], Leo Galcher [specialties: being a daily
driver of a EV], Prof. MacFarland of Saddleback Community College
[specialties: being a really, really, blindingly good mechanic], and
Chris Mish [specialties: being really cynical and electron-pushing], as
well as occasional wrench-turning by too many students to list. In
addition I must credit the excellent machinists at McQueen Machine in
Tustin, CA.

In a sense, this was a privately funded [by me] venture of Saddleback
Community College, although I'm not sure if they'd like me to say that
or not. This fine institution has seen fit to discontinue the electric
vehicle course because of a unfortunate lack of students - but not
before placing several low voltage lead-acid DC EVs on the road. And one
high voltage NiZn AC EV  - and I'm driving it ;-)

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