Hi Dave, Yeah, it's too bad about the quality of the Goldberg kits of late. I built a Tiger 60 a year or so ago and didn't have any troubles with the quality but it was a kit I had bought in 95'. Something's happend over there in the past five years or so, I've read alot of complaints here and elseware over poor cutting and low quality wood.

I'm going to get those plans after all, I rememberd a guy who needed a plan for a power pod published back in 86' as I recall. He had posted here looking for a copy of the articule. Who'd belive it, but I'd just finshed cleaning out my garage and in doing so came across a stack of old RCMs in a corner. Sat down there for a little while and looked through them (gosh we've come a long way, heck, I was only in my late 20's . . . what happend?) to see if there were any I wished to save further before tossing them with the rest of the old junk. That night I read here of his search for that articule that just so happened to be in one of the mags I tossed that day. Trash was comming in the morning so I got a flashlight and went out and fished through the used diaper filled trash bags to see if I could find the mag. I did and sent it too him latter that week. He in return wrote to me that he had a large collection of plans and be glad to send me a copy of any one I wished at his expense (NY to CA, 1st class mail, not cheap) and . . . hence I have the Paragon plans and thinking of that made me remember his list of plans included the GL and taking a look in my little e-mail address book . . . on the way (at my expense of course).

I guess the 'moral' of this story is it never hurts to go a little out of your way to help someone (even diging through trash), even for someone you've never met nor ever will in person because you never can tell . . . besides, it feels pretty good too, to be a good guy that is.
Rick K
LSF 6493