HELP!! Plans Issue

[Firecaptain]

Daniel, thanks for the info and support.

Mouppe, thanks.

Don, I sent you and "email" through the forum "system" with my contact email.

The problem is getting them scanned. At this juncture I am afraid that they would come apart in the scanning process.

I have in the works, communication with another buyer of one on ebay to see if they would scan their plans for a fee + costs.

I am sure that there are some "gurus" that would take one even without plans.....those folks that are gifted and talented enough to build one without them, I am definately [B]not[/B] one of those.

[Daniel]

Daniel, thanks for the info and support.


The problem is getting them scanned. At this juncture I am afraid that they would come apart in the scanning process.

I have in the works, communication with another buyer of one on ebay to see if they would scan their plans for a fee + costs.

Joe, my job in the construction industry requires that I have plans scanned and printed all the time, actually hundreds of drawings per month. The modern machines used definitely won't damage old plans. I recently had hand drawn and coloured property title drawings dated 1906 scanned and copied without problem. Most print shops will scan drawings and place them on cd for you; they give you a choice of making PDF or TIFF files. PDF is the most common and easily transmittable. PDF allows you to print a part or the whole of a drawing, to the original size or scale it up or down. To give you a guide I pay about $2.50 per A1 sheet size scanned to PDF. The A1 sheet size is a little bigger than the size Hasegawa used to print their aeroplane plans. There is also an additional one off charge of $10.00 to have the files burnt to CD. The people in the print shops are professionals at handling plans and will ensure your originals won’t get damaged. From what you have described, it sounds like getting them copied will be the easiest way for you to get usable plans.