Lotus Elan Workshop Manual

PostPost by: zedascouves » Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:30 pm

I'm making a copy of one, and I can put it on .pdf form. Would that be useful to the community? I was thinking about putting it up for free on my webpage.
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PostPost by: elanfan1 » Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:40 pm

Good idea for your own use.

Make it it publically accessible or pass it around and I think you might be hearing from the Lotus lawyers. It is their copyright afterall. Probably not such a good idea to publicise it on this forum.

Just my twopenneth worth.
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PostPost by: zedascouves » Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:27 pm

The book is about 50 years old, is it still under copyright law? And are they still publishing it? Because otherwise, I doubt they would sue me.
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PostPost by: garyeanderson » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:01 am

If you are looking to make a S1, S2 or early Coupe, some one has already done the work for you. The S3 and S4 and Sprint have yet to be done and put online, at least not that I know of.

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/mce/Elan/Documents/

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PostPost by: zedascouves » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:24 am

Yes, actually it's a S2. Thank you very much for the link. I'll do it nonetheless, even if for personal use.

Shouldn't this link be somewhere in the site?
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PostPost by: garyeanderson » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:33 am

Its been posted before by me but there is no sticky for it. I guess I may have got this one wrong, the link is for the parts listing, not the manual. is this what you are going to reproduce in .pdf form?

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PostPost by: zedascouves » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:13 am

Right, after downloading that file I noticed it's not the same thing. What I'm doing is actually the workshop manual.
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PostPost by: kmoist » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:22 am

It would be great to have it available on-line. The Europa group has extensive manuals posted for those cars.

http://lotus-europa.com/docs.html
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PostPost by: Bruce Crowthorne » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:58 am

Drop me a mail at bruce dot orr at btconnect dot com.

Manual is OK but do you have an S4 parts list?
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PostPost by: LoTex » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:14 pm

I would love to have the manual in .pdf. Let us know how to get to it when you finish it!

My original manual somehow went missing at a shop that I had some work done. Never brought it back there again, for obvious reasons...


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PostPost by: zedascouves » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:31 am

I'm sorry it's taking so long.

The machine that was doing this had a 50 sheet limit per batch, so now I have about 500 pages divided by 50 sheet batches that I'll have to put together in one file. The software I was using did it well in Linux, but when I tried to open the final file in Windows, it only showed 88 pages.

So... now I'll have to try a different tool and hope it'll work good enough in most OS's.
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PostPost by: Chrisrich » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:33 am

Count me in as one of the guys who'll be grateful for all that scanning! Good luck!
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PostPost by: Bruce Crowthorne » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:50 pm

I already have it in scanned form (.pdf)
Can someone on here host it?
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PostPost by: richardcox_lotus » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:12 am

On your own head be it re Copyrighting. I believe they are still available from the factory via certain outlets (Miles Wilkins, etc), therefore they may still under Copyright law.
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