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All my Cases are imports from the USA. (I grew up on a DC, which my Dad bought new in 1951) I stuffed 4 of them in a conatiner and shipped them over here. We care for 3000 Orphans and Widows, along with our 1200 churches, and have a number of rice production sites, as well as a rice mill, but only one small Yanmar tractor. The DC's were pretty much junk, but the parts are simple, castings and bearings are redily available in standard sizes, so I bought up four of them. We got started in the parts business with fenders (those will work on the SC's) and have 200 pair along with 400 battery covers and 400 PTO shields (also SC friendly), all exact copies of originals, on a ship somewhere in between here and the US. John Saeli, and Don Rudolph will be marketing the stuff for us. We then got into rebuilding the DC's as I need to train dozens of orphan boys in the mechanical trades. In the process we've made transmission gears, manifolds,valves, belt pulleys, front cast iron yokes for the DC-4, cast iron seat brackets, foot clutch pedals, rubber seat tortion springs, brake and clutch plates, and some Eagle Hitch parts all for our own use. I hadn't planned on exporting them, but we may if the demand is there. Two DC's I plan to restore, but since Diesel is much cheaper here, and we can get good used Mazda 250CI truck engines with a hudge crankshaft, 5 bolt mains, a strong engine, we are converting them and installing a 4X4 drive that runs off of the sliding gear shaft. One other interesting thing is we are using a vacuum booster off of a 25 ton truck, and a heavy spring, to run a foot operated, hand clutch conversion. I'll keep you posted on the progress. I also have a VAC-13 and a 411B sitting on the warf, but not deliverd yet, still working it out with customs, but no SC's. John wants us to get into the gauge business but we are not yet sophisticated enough for that, but are considering bringing in a manufacturer from Vietnam to teach us.
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