Honda Beat Workshop Manual

[Jason]

Hey guys,

I have converted all 600 pages of the workshop manual to CD. If anyone is interested in a copy I'm happy to send it to you for 15 pound including postage.

Regards

Jason

[adrianp]

Hi Jason,

2 questions.....

1: What format have you used ?? (word, pdf, etc..)

2: How is the best way to pay ??

Adrian.

[Jason]

Adrain,

I have simply saved each page as a jpg and have organised these into folders according to chapters. As for payment, simply write a cheque for 15 pound and send it to...

Jason Tepper
6 Arundel Court
Box Hill South
Victoria
Australia 3128

Please include your address and I will dispatch the CD immediately. The price includes postage and the fee to convert your cheque to Aussie dollars.

Hope this helps

Jason

PS For every CD sold I would like to donate 1 pound to the club.

[tinytim]

Jason,

Have you considered setting up a paypal account, it would make things much quicker and I'll buy one.
It may also be worth running it through an OCR package and converting it to a .pdf or .doc file then you could e-mail it to us Poms and give half the postage to the site.

[adrianp]

Good idea that,

Paypal is such a universal thing and it seems to work for anything you need.

I didn't get chance to post the cheque off today after all so if you do have an account Jason then I can pay that way also if you want.

Adrian.

[Jason]

Hey guys

Paypal is not available in Australia...

I also attempted to run the manual through a couple of OCR packages but they took far to long to convert each page to pdf. When you take into account that it took almost ten hours of scanning to convert the entire manual, I used the most efficient system available. Coupled with this, jpg has a far better compression which not only saves space but also allows you to quickly browse through pages using slide show so you can find what you are looking for much easier.

Regards

Jason

[Midship]

Great idea Jason

Put me down for a copy too, do you accept Euro or is STG best? ill send off the money on friday when i get paid!

Cheers

[adrianp]

Hi Jason,

Just incase your interested I did a search on PayPals site and came up with this...

Q: Is PayPal available in my country?

A: In addition to the U.S., PayPal is now available in the following countries:

Anguilla
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Iceland
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Singapore
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
United Kingdom

www.paypal.com

Obviously, if you still want a cheque instead than that's not a problem.

Hope this helps

Adrian.

[Paul w]

Just how big is it Jason? I mean all together?

I can get 500MB of server space on here for next to nothing, then charge a small fee to enter the secure area. (for you!)

Just a thought!

PW

[Jason]

Hey guys,

I do apologise, Paypal is now available in Australia and I have set up an account...

jwtepper@urban.net.au

My only reservation, is the ability to associate each payment with the respective member. In addition I will need to know your address so I can send you the CD. I'm sure we can work through this.

As for the size, it is 302MB which would fit on the server but would take a lifetime to download, unless you have cable. I thought about using something like StuffIt but apparently you loose resolution of jpg's by doing this and I didn't want to loose any detail. Still interested in this option though.

I thought cheques would be the most simple as you could write them in Pound Sterling, include your address and as soon I receive it I would dispatch the CD.

Thanks so much for the help

Jason

[witsend]

Cable (well, adsl) will be here at the end of april so it may be an option, its a big project, but it would be invaluabe!

I'll look into it a bit more and let you know

PW

[Jason]

Hey everyone,

Just to keep you up to date. For those of you who have already paid money using PayPal I have dispatched your CD's. It seems to work fine. Thanks for the suggestion.

Regards

Jason

[adrianp]

Hi Jason,

Glad it is working for you.

Just paid mine that way also

Look forward to getting it

Adrian.

[Jason]

Hey everyone,

For those of you who have ordered your workshop manuals, drop us a line when you get them as I like to know how long it takes.

Regards

Jason

[hondzilla]

got the manual saturday

[adrianp]

Hi Jason,

Got mine this morning...

The movie file is excelent, sat there with the sound turned up and thoroughly enjoyed it...

Adrian

[Jason]

Hey guys,

It is good to hear the CD's are turning up as I was concerned with the war that they would be delayed. As for the movie file, Im glad you like it. I was even thinking if we could convert it to DivX we could put it on the site.

Regards

Jason

[tinytim]

Thanx Jason it arrived Saturday

[Jason]

Hey fellow Beat Owners,

I'm really surprised at the number of countries Beats are to be found. While I remember, if you are using Paypal be sure to put where you live in the Shipping Information correctly.

Many thanks

Jason

[Tim]

I got mine today Many thanks